truth on Self-Deception

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

At some point in childhood we all make the powerful discovery that we can manipulate the truth about ourselves.

Pastor: If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. People: But if we confess our sins, God, who is faithful and just, will forgive our sins and cleanse us from a...

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." In ...

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not ...

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Holy and merciful God, we need Your grace and love today. We deliberately lie and speak falsehoods. We mislead and deceive with half-truths. We omit facts that make us look bad. We take pleasure in go...

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

There’s a somewhat naïve belief among some that, in general, most people are inherently good. While many Christians may not fully embrace John Calvin’s doctrine of total depravity (which I believe is ...

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

In his poem Cocktail Party , T. S. Eliot captures a fundamental truth about human nature and the source of much hurt in the world. People’s actions are rarely driven by outright malice—intended t...

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But n...

Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Tell all the truth, but tell it slant. . . . The truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind.

Paradox has been defined as “Truth standing on her head to attract attention."

While I am not one to see a demon behind every bush or spiritual warfare in every difficulty, the fact is that we are regularly engaged in the struggle against good and evil—whether we know it or not....

The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams observes that the biblical ideal is not so much that we need to deny the self as to decenter the self: To see the self in truth, as an integral member of a comm...

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was mean...

Gracious God, forgive us when we fail to look honestly at ourselves. It is easy to minimize and justify our sin, believing we can appease our guilt. We are afraid, thinking it is up to us to remove ou...

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.