Quotes about Deceit
Satan mounts his mutiny against God through a deceitful stronghold: God is untrustworthy. In subtle and not-so-subtle ways, he places God's heart on trial by whispering insidious lies: "God is holding back on you. He wants you to jump through hoops in order to earn His love. He's stingy. He doesn't have your best interest in mind. You're better off trusting in yourself. Your resources and functional saviors work better then waiting and trusting in Him.
— James MacDonald
“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
— Jeremiah 6:13
You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit.
— Psalm 5:6
Destruction is within; oppression and deceit never leave the streets.
— Psalm 55:11
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
— Romans 1:29
We have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God's message. 2 Corinthians 4:2
— Beth Moore
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in His death, although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.
— Isaiah 53:9
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
— Romans 3:13
He who speaks the truth declares what is right, but a false witness speaks deceit.
— Proverbs 12:17
For behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrow on the string to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
— Psalm 11:2
We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.
— Heinrich Heine
Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of deceit and pull sin along with cart ropes,
— Isaiah 5:18