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The most insidious deception in human history is the lie that says, “God is against you.” -
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The easiest person to deceive is the person in the mirror. It shouldn’t be this way, but it is. -
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The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And hav... -
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One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. -
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Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear them or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everyth... -
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Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecut... -
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Our rational, grown-up selves are good liars. -
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Satan is a liar. He wants to steal our joy and replace it with hopelessness. When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains w... -
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Dissonance theory predicts that we will eventually (and conveniently) forget good arguments made by opponents just as we forget silly arguments we made ourselves. . . . It’s motivated by our need to b... -
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Satan doesn’t control us with fang marks on the flesh, but with lies in the heart. -
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So long then as the word of truth is on our side, never be in any wise distressed at the calumny of a lie; let no imperial threats scare you; do not be grieved at the laughter and mockery of your inti... -
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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. -
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. -
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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... -
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In the struggle with falsehood art always did win and it always does win! ... And no sooner will falsehood be dispersed than the nakedness of violence will be revealed in all its ugliness – and violen... -
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Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves. -
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Self-deception is a major part of what defeats spiritual formation in Christ. In self-deception the individual or group refuses to acknowledge factors in their life of which they are dimly conscious. ... -
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I believe we all need to reframe our stories, at least parts of them, in order to heal, to discard lies, to move from partial truths to richer, fuller explanations, to see our lives as God sees them. -
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. -
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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. -
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -
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He wonders if he’s lying. If he is, he is hung in the middle of nowhere, and the thought hollows him. -
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Evading self-acknowledgment of our faults enables us to avoid painful moral emotions: guilt and remorse for harming others; shame for betraying your own ideals; self-contempt for not meeting even our ... -
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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