God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy’s lies.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can’t last.

But some people, and especially very young people, don’t think anything’s worth believing unless it’s hard to believe.

a rumor is only true, if you get offended.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepared for matrimony by a hatred of home, by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she...

I’m great at lying to myself.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn’t change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists

There are different ways to be confused about how someone’s disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it...

A man protects his fish from rats by keeping it under a cat’s watch. How wise!Another buys a gun for security reasons, but decides to kill a ghost with it. How smart!One prays to God...

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can’t see the image of God?

I lie constantly. All the time. I’m nothing but one big mass of lies.

Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music. We unlearned the lies with one hand and repeated them with the other.

I’ve learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit.

Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn’t fall down.

Lies can be formed from truth, but truth cannot be formed from lies.

Sometime a #lie is more #honest than the #truth . At least that lie will guide you to the #path you really believe TO walk” It tells , who U R

The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything—except the truth.

The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

The Devil hath powerTo assume a pleasing shape.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

I have to admit that I’m feeling a little anxious these days. We’ve all been lied to so much. There’s just all this uncertainty we’re facing…I mean, what if the hokey-pokey ISN’T what it’s all...

Isn’t strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?

Jan Hindman knows all too well that people who have lied for decades about their offending would lie to her about being victimized as a child, so she compared the reports of abuse by child...

REJECT THE LIES AND VIOLENCE. STAND FOR LOVE, TRUTH, DECENCY AND THE COMMON GOOD.

Everyone lies to themselves, but many people do it with good intentions. They want to believe what they tell themselves, it is oftentimes the best possible version of reality for them. Although it may not...

Mm. Those are some of the best lies.

Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you choke on the lies.

You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say ‘God is love,’ they will claim that...

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind … is the one fundamental treason which the scholar’s mind must not...

Deceit for personal gain is one of history’s most recurring crimes. Man’s first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before...

I don’t like to tell lies.

Many truths which are not believed are called lies,’ the Laughing Beast said. ‘Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and...

Love is the color of red inverted. At least that’s what Gunnar Greenlove told me, and I believe him because he’s from an island where half the people tell only the truth and half tell...

In the abundance of men’s incredible promises, there’s an equal abundance of deceit

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

A harp can be a dangerous as a sword, in the right hands.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

I’ve always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor...

Secrets and lies… Everyone in the world deals with these every day of their lives. To protect themselves. To protect someone else. It is all in the way that you look at the situation.

Next minute you’ll be telling me there’s nothing wrong,’ he said softly. ‘One of the all time favourite lies women employ when they’re hiding huge grievances.

The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities.

So is darkness better than a heartfelt lie?

Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.”(on Lillian Hellman)

I believe in persevering. If you persevere, success lies ahead of you.

I’d grown to trust Mr. Bradshaw, even though he was the one who had taught me how to lie. Not to mention the day he lectured me on how to get close to someone to...

Brandon was like a God in Healy, and I guess I was like God’s best friend.