Quotes about Deception
Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.
— Mark Twain
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
— Billy Graham
Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil the devil was a liar from the beginning.
— Joseph Wirthlin
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
— Epictetus
But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.
— Clement of Alexandria
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
— St. Augustine
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success the tempter stood, nor had what to reply, discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.
— John Milton
Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.
— CS Lewis
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
— Aristotle
The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.
— John Owen
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
— AW Tozer
Seeing is not always believing.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.