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Quotes about Deception

One advice I give: Beware of Antichrist; for, unhappily, a love of walls has seized you; unhappily, the Church of God which you venerate exists in houses and buildings; unhappily, under these you find the name of peace. Is it doubtful that in these Antichrist will have his seat?
— John Calvin
Hence there is nothing that Satan so much endeavors to accomplish as to bring on mists with the view of obscuring Christ, because he knows, that by this means the way is opened up for every kind of falsehood.
— John Calvin
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.
— John Calvin
And swearNo whereLives a woman true, and fair.
— John Donne
Poor heretics there be, Which think to establish dangerous constancy, But I have told them, 'Since you will be true, You shall be true to them, who are false to you.
— John Donne
Though she were true when you met her. and last till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three.
— John Donne
We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.
— David Platt
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
— Dorothy Sayers
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
— Soren Kierkegaard
There is no greater misery than false joys.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
— Ezra Taft Benson
One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.
— Alexander Hamilton