Quotes about Deception
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
— William James
It hurt me, and pained my very heart, that any body should show me any respect. Alas! methought, how sadly they are deceived in me! how miserably would they be disappointed, if they knew my inside! Oh my heart!
— David Brainerd
Self-deception is an indispensable element of war, and that despite the fact that wars are calculated and planned, there is a sense in which human beings do not know what they are doing when they cut one another down on the battlefield.
— David Livingstone Smith
God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
— JC Ryle
Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.
— St. Augustine
If you give them a God made in their own image, I guarantee they'll accept Him. But He won't be the God who saves.
— Paul Washer
The devil is God's ape!
— Martin Luther
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
— John Calvin
Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria.
— JD Greear
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
— Thomas Paine
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.
— Thomas Adams