Self Deception In The Bible Quotes & Sayings

The sword of the Spirit - the Bible - is the weapon God has provided for us to use in this battle between truth and deception. Make it a priority to wield that sword skillfully. — Billy Graham

There are some things you worry about. And then there are some things you don't worry about. You don't worry about them because they're too awful to contemplate worrying about. — Melissa Kantor

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow. — Camille Paglia

I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly — Sara Novic

Fair is fair; all love is war. — Kyle Busch

I had school debt I had to pay off. Sometimes I would do commercials to get me through. And so I kept bumping along like that and learning different things. I knew I wanted to get out on my own. I was just super-curious, and I was a good listener. And that got me through. — Susan Sarandon

Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost every significant fact about us and our world wrong. Every scientific domain
from cosmology to psychology to economics
has superseded and surpassed the wisdom of Scripture.
Everything of value that people get from religion can be had more honestly, without presuming anything on insufficient evidence. The rest is self-deception, set to music. — Sam Harris

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters. — Kenneth Lonergan

People don't necessarily confide in one another to get something off their chest. They want something: reassurance, which is a hard gift to give convincingly. — Marilyn Manson

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in the world. Kindness, can change the lives of people. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Those who engage in deception generally have nothing good to offer; Satan has nothing good to offer humanity. John 8:44 — Felix Wantang

Many fear signs and wonders because of the possibility of deception. So, in order to prevent any opportunity of being deceived, they replace displays of power with religious traditions, Christian activities, or even Bible study. They often become satisfied with knowledge. But, when this happens, who is deceived? — Bill Johnson

It's not about the size of your body, kid. It's about the size of your heart.
The Last Hour — Charles Sheehan-Miles

People ask why my brother killed himself. "Why would such a gifted journalist, whose works have won all the prizes in the world, do such a thing?" "He had so many friends, why would he want to leave them?" "But what about all he had to live for?"
In a short space of time, I had a drawerful of articles wirtten by reporters pondering the death of one who, like them, made a living out of trying to sort out the truth, separating fact from conjecture. They were hell-bent on making sense out of this event.
When they phoned, I told them they were going to fail. I told them that the problem with suicide is that it is a senseless event. There is no why.
But of course that's wrong. There are numerous whys, though it's almost impossible, or unlikely that any single one of them is "the answer" that people want to hear. — Christopher Lukas