Quotes About Deception

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes.

what more scoundrelly trick could you have played on us?

They mistakenly assume that their good works can save them. Just make sure that you are born again. Because if you are not, your good works are worthless.

an enemy is not more baneful than a flatterer.

This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.

For feelings come and feelings go, And feelings are deceiving; My warrant is the Word of God - Naught else is worth believing. I'll trust in God's unchanging Word Till soul and body sever, For, though all things shall pass away, His Word shall stand forever!

No one should be deceived by the glamor of the ceremonies and entangled in the multitude of pompous forms, and thus lose the simplicity of the mass itself

In lying fashion you ignore what even children know.

He who does not fear the truth should fear a lie and should worship an image or a phantom as God.

a sham friend is more hateful than an open enemy.

We do not then reject good works; nay, we embrace them and teach them in the highest degree. It is not on their own account that we condemn them, but on account of this impious addition to them and the perverse notion of seeking justification by them. These things cause them to be only good in outward show, but in reality not good, since by them men are deceived and deceive others, like ravening wolves in sheep's clothing.

Nothing is prettier, better, or holier in the sight of men than idolatry and godlessness adorned with hypocrisy and a show of piety. An evil deed in the sight of God, however, is one that is undertaken without faith and the Word, by our own efforts, however good and beautiful it may appear.

Terence, Andria, I, 1, 41: Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit.

115. Learn, then, what a hypocrite is; namely, one who lays claim to the worship of God and to charity, and yet, at the same time, destroys the worship of God and slaughters his brother.

truly speaking, Laban is a dog.

Hence the German proverb: "All mischief begins in the name of God.

Seeing is not always believing.

Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap Galatians 6:7 For the wages of sin is death Romans 6:23

Every man I've ever known has had an angle, some way of using women. With me mum's blokes it was the obvious – I mean, she was a brass. Most used her for her money or her body. Mostly her money. They lived off her, you know.

Who was it who once said: 'Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer still'? An astute man whoever he was,