Pastoral Resources

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't.