Quotes about Subterfuge

An intelligent enemy always keeps in the background and remains hidden out of sight.

Be that as it may, I was not a burden to you; but crafty as I am, I caught you by trickery.

The enemy. As long as we never expose what he is doing, he will work in the darkness.

Satan wants us to sneak things in secret.

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”

Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze? A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.

Then the man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.

This sort of absurd subterfuge, and this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.

Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.