Quotes about Lies
The lies that capture us as Christians usually seem to fit well within the borders of our Christianity.
— Timothy Lane
Your thoughts cannot be empty. As the old saying goes, nature abhors a vacuum. If you are not entertaining God's truth, you will be entertaining Satan's lies.
— Dallas Willard
We see a clear pattern: Satan's constant deception of human beings.
— Dallas Willard
Jesus referred to him as "a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:44 NRSV). Indeed, his whole kingdom is based on lies; he works by deceiving.
— Dallas Willard
"Friend deceives friend, and no-one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning. You live in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me."
— Jeremiah 9:5-6
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
— Edmund Burke
When he spoke, he illuminated a truth I had always yearned for and yet always run from. I am known as an authority on the holy texts, and yet when he spoke, I realized I knew nothing. And what I did know, I had cloaked in my own selfish interpretations. In so doing, I had turned the truth into lies.
— Janette Oke
But evil is always illusion. It insists on the lie that we can have something for ourselves. This is the sole principle at work in hell. Lucifer chose to believe it; or, since it is unimaginable that he actually could have believed it, then we may say that he chose to pretend it might be. Very well, says Truth, you may pretend this. But the pretense will be, literally, your undoing. It will unmake you. You will have opted for something that is not, namely, a lie. Hell is built of lies.
— Thomas Howard
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.
— Thomas Merton
The beginning of love is truth, and before He will give us His love, God must cleanse our souls of the lies that are in them. And the most effective way of detaching us from ourselves is to make us detest our
— Thomas Merton
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
— Isabel Allende
In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.
— Mark McKinnon