Quotes about Deception
Often, the most dangerous deception was the one that looked the most like the truth.
— Randy Singer
When the gospel is preached, there will be true and false conversions.
— Ray Comfort
Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
— John Henry Newman
A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.
— Richard Sibbes
Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)
— CS Lewis
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.
— St. Augustine
Yes, it is the precepts of men versus the revealed word of God. The more we follow the word of God the less we are deceived, while those who follow the wisdom of men are deceived the most.
— Ezra Taft Benson