Quotes About Deception

To assume that a Christian who is spiritually alive and struggling to overcome sin can't be deceived is hopelessly naive!

Before we received Christ, we were slaves to sin. But because of Christ's work on the cross, sin's power over us has been broken. Satan has no right of ownership or authority over us. He is a defeated foe, but he is committed to keeping us from realizing that. He knows he can block your effectiveness as a Christian if he can deceive you into believing that you are nothing but a product of your past, subject to sin, prone to failure, and controlled by your habits.

The only thing big about a demon is its mouth. Demons

The father of lies can block your effectiveness as a Christian if he can deceive you into believing that you are nothing but a product of your past—subject to sin, prone to failure, and controlled by your habits.

Many Christians in the Western church attempt to live as though the devil does not exist, having

On the other hand, as every cop knows, lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

It's a problem, you know, Paul, dealing with stupid people. You project your own intelligence and rationality onto a person who is a complete idiot, and he lets you down.

You're smarter than you look. Did you ever have anti-terrorist training?" "Sort of. I was married.

The first casualty of war is the truth.

lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are more.

this was the Middle East. The land of the mirage, the shimmering pond in the sand that drew you farther into the deadly desert, and when you arrived at the lifesaving water, it disappeared, and you discovered the bones of those who'd been there before you. You discovered death.

He looked around the crowded room. "The walls have ears." "Actually, they have termites. And no one here cares what we're talking about. Look, Mr. Macia, you have offered me two million dollars and it will not surprise you that I could use the money, but—

lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

CIA types are so into deceit, deception, double and triple crosses, paranoia, and bullshit, that you never knew what they knew

every cop knows, lies are like cockroaches—if you see one, there are others.

When you're dealing with people who have no moral center, no loyalty to anyone but themselves, you don't always get the logical results you expect, or the truth that you paid for.

I always thought that voluntary arms compliance inspections were sort of like a suspected murderer leading me on a guided tour of his house. No, Detective, there's nothing in that closet of any interest. Now, let me show you my patio.

Pravda, as you know, means 'truth,' and Izvestia means 'news,' and I've heard it said that there is no news in the Truth and no truth in the News.

early to bed, early to rise, makes a man sneaky and full of lies.

Amar é ser fiel a quem nos trai.

Até então julgara-se feliz e, de repente, descobre que sua felicidade não existe

I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?

Only by an act of treachery to those who believe in us can either of us escape.

Appear as you may wish to be