The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows our own crookedness. We can’t really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
– Elisabeth Elliot –
Saints not only desire to love and speak truth with their lips, but they seek to be true within; they will not lie even in the closet of their hearts, for God is there to listen; they scorn double meanings, evasions, equivocations, white lies, flatteries, and deceptions.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Unless we examine what we believe and why we believe it, we can easily be deceived and not know it.
– Pamela Christian –
If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Many deceptions only appeal to us because there is something inside us that “wants” to believe them. They are seductive because of darkness and wrong motives in our own lives. We must search our hearts and root these out.
– Andrew Strom –
