Sentences with phrase «deceivers make»

Samuel Johnson once noted the kinds of moves self - deceivers make: they congratulate themselves on a single act of generosity, telling themselves that they are generous people; or they dwell on the faults of others; or they avoid people who know what they are like, preferring the company of those who will not expose them to themselves.

The nature of David's dishonesty can be made clearer if we imagine him making the moves that self - deceivers make.

Not exact matches

Reading your comments gives me hope that a day will come when all that is hidden will be made known, when all the liars and deceivers and narcissists and manipulators and abusers will have nowhere to hide and will be forced to face up to and own the horror of what they have done.

Hey you guys are real deceivers and very good at it no wonder the agenda has made it this far on nothing

Pretty bright guy, for a deceiver... not to mention that AT ANY GIVEN TIME, all he had to do was abandon his testimony that he saw the Living Christ, who Mormons uphold as God, and His Father... make it all go away Joseph by denying this ever happened, and you and Emma and the family can go lively quietly somewhere until the end of your lives.

Take, for example, Paul's statement in 2 Corinthians 6:8 - 10: «As deceivers, vet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things.»

The Quran makes no sense... Allah refers to himself as a deceiver, as evil, he swears by creation instead of himself (as God does to Moses), it is clearly evident that Allah is Satan.

Throughout many centuries the Christian polemic made Muhammad out to be a deceiver and paragon of baseness, until philological and historical inquiry moved him back into proper perspective and did justice to his religious genius.

If Satan is the master deceiver of all time, what makes you think that he didn't «write» the Bible too?

Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self - deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check — agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man - made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.

But natural variability makes it possible for scurrilous deceivers to do a classic «no - no» in science: to cherry - pick data to support their claims.