Quotes About Deception

Thus Belial with words cloth'd in reason's garbCounsel'd ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth,Not peace.

The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile,Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'dThe mother of mankind.

The serpent subtlest beast of all the field.

Truth… never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.

But all was false and hollow; through his tongueDropp'd manna, and could make the worse appearThe better reason.

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

Hence vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!

Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.

When men competed for positions of power, it was generally acknowledged that the ones who got it were invariably the ones who could least be trusted with it.

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

By now it is customary, indeed obligatory, to regard Hitler's speeches as nothing but falsehoods aimed at fomenting mischief and stirring up hate, but Hitler was like any skilled fabricator: he interwove the true with the false, using the former to convince his hearers of the latter.

Thus those who are employed in poisoning souls, generally make use of some important and beneficial truth, as a vehicle by which they convey their malignant drug into the minds of the unwary!

If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring. Apple could put the entire text of "Mein Kampf" inside the iTunes user agreement, and you'd just go agree, agree, agree - what? - agree, agree.

Jimmy: You'll end up like one of those chocolate merengues my wife is so fond of [Alison starts banging jars]...sweet and sticky on the outside, and sink your teeth in it [savouring every word]-inside, all white, messy and disgusting. [offering teapot sweetly to Helena] Milk?

With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, with her flattering lips she seduced him. Immediately he went after her, as an ox goes to slaughter…He did not know it would cost his life—PROVERBS 7:21-23.

People who are deceived by lawlessness do not understand that by rejecting God's laws they are led into even greater licentiousness and enslavement to sin. When lawlessness is practiced, it becomes easier to do it again. Thus, lawlessness leads to more lawlessness.

Jezebel spirit is ruthless and deceptive, even to the person who manifests this spirit.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.

Everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed." Concealed sin keeps us from seeing the light of Christ.

Therefore, Christ crucified is the foundation of all honest and everlast- ing joy. No self-deception is necessary to enjoy it. Indeed all deception must cease in order to enjoy it to the full.

Since 9/11 what we have seen, and now increasingly understand in more depth than Christians in past generations, is that the final enemies of Jesus and of His people are not who we thought they would be. It may be surprising to learn that the future prophesied destroyers of the United States, and the purported conquerors of the world, pray regularly each day, prohibit abortion, denounce homosexuality, and forbid alcohol. Who are these people? Christian fundamentalists? Well, not quite.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Lies! Lies, all of it! Murderous thieves - there's not room for their kind of civilized society!