craig-d-lounsbrough Quotes About lies Page 3

“If something is greater than that which we can understand, we create weak caricatures and fanciful narratives to explain it. And at the point that these things become the story, the fiction is based on the belief that we actually have a story.”

“I believe in God because all of the other options are nothing more than a collection of terribly lackluster efforts to replace what the original option has never ceased to be.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The greatest crime committed by any villain is to get everyone around them to believe that they are not.”

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“There is no place to which you can run where a lie will still be anything other than a lie. Yet I find it terribly sad that the need to believe our own lies is so crushing that we spend our lives running to a place that doesn’t exist.”

Lying Integrity Lies Foolish Deception Deceit Manipulation Distortions

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“You cannot spew a tangled web of lies, negativity, and division without having those very things turn on your own soul. Therefore, let us remember that the most wounded among us are often those who have done the most wounding.”

Politics Media Lies Manipulation Division Negativity Distortions Spin

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“Are we the fool of the narrative? Whether we have tediously written out the narratives to explain our world, or allay our fears, or justify our agendas, or excuse our behaviors. Or whether we have given ourselves entirely over the narratives of others who write them for the same reasons. Are we the fool of the narrative?”

Media Lies Narrative Propaganda Platforms Justification Rationalization Spins

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“Pointing the finger is often the way that we say that it wasn’t us, when the stuff that we’re holding with the other four fingers says something quite different.”

Politics Media Lies Blame Justification Rationalization Blaming Accusations Finger Accusatory

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“Small are the things that divide us and great are the things that unite us. And in a culture fanatically strewn with shameless lies and tangled propaganda, we must never allow ourselves to be lulled into the lie that the opposite is true.”

Culture Politics United Society Media Lies Unity Propaganda Agendas Manipulation

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“I can teach a cat to bark and feed it dog food all of its life, but it will still be a cat. However, what it won’t be is a cat that enjoyed everything that it was to be a cat.”

Dog Identity Cat Lies Greed Foolish Ignorant Deception Misled Distortions

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“Accountability is accepting the fact that the soup’s too salty, that there’s only one saltshaker in the kitchen, and that I’m the only one holding it. And an inability to accept any one of these three realities means that I prefer to spend my life blaming others for recipes gone bad because of the way that I handled the ingredients.”

Lying Responsibility Integrity Lies Blame Accountability Ingredients Recipes

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“At the point that we have allowed a lie to become our truth, we have become everything that the world doesn’t need and nothing of what it does. But greater still, we ourselves have become everything that we don’t need and nothing of what we do.”

Lying Ethics Lies Foolish Deception Manipulation Morals Justification Rationalization Distortions

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“The greatest part of a lie is the lie that it’s somehow worth telling.”

Lying Values Ethics Lies Manipulation Morals Justification Rationalization Blaming

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“The belief in the ‘easy way’ is one of the greatest pieces of fiction mankind has ever created.”

Easy Fiction Mankind Comfortable Lies Familiar Deception Create

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“Do we actually think that we have the power to subjugate evil and wrestle it into blind obedience as some whipped puppy? For if evil can convince us of this, it has ‘subjugated’ us and ‘wrestled’ us into blind obedience without us having any idea that we just got whipped.”

God Christian Evil Jesus Devil Lies Deception Satan Deceived Destroy

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“God invites. Man indoctrinates. The former is an invitation to run the wilds of an eternity anticipated now in order to fully live there later. The latter is a set of chains that knows nothing of running, nor the space within which to do so.”

God Christian Jesus Lies Eternity Chains Agendas Indoctrination Brainwashing Invitation

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“To rewrite history is a deliberate action perpetrated by those who are too driven by their fear and too captivated by their greed to acknowledge that the flaws in their agenda won't stand up to the truth of history. And to arrogantly declare that their revision of history is anything less is to have their own history systematically destroyed in a manner forever beyond revision.”

Truth Politics History Lies Historical Manipulation Fact Accuracy Revision Distortions

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“Truth has legs that are longer than any of our lies. In time it will catch up to us, not because the truth has longer legs but because lies have no legs.”

Truth Lies Legs Deceit False Longer Catch Up Shorter

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“When someone tells you that there is no agenda, you can be certain there is nothing but an agenda.”

Lying Lies Deception Manipulation Fooled Agenda

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“Indoctrination is the dubious art of leading an individual to become convinced that some conviction arose from deep within the core of their being, when in fact it was subtly implanted from some place far outside of the core of anything except the greed of the one who planted it.”

Political Lies Conviction Deception Manipulation Schemes Distortions Indoctrinate

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“We don’t have the power to change reality. However, we do have the power to destroy ourselves in the effort to avoid it.”

Truth Power Lies Denial Justification Fact Avoidance Destroy Rationalization

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“Freedom abused is one of the greatest forms of slavery imaginable.”

America Freedom United States Lies Slavery Greed Deception Self Centered Abused Enslaved

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“If our commitment to an agenda is so passionate that we will rewrite the history that does not support it, we have become a blind slave to a rogue agenda that will destroy us in the service of it.”

History Lies Blind Slave Deception Manipulation Agenda Rogue Rewrite Revisionist

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“Just because we chose to reject the truth doesn't mean that such an option was actually available to us.”

Truth Lies Deception Justify Rationalize Distortions Deceive Reject

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“Too often words are used to envelope pithy and rank agendas in the garments of justice, piety and all things good. And the worst of it is not that I have fooled others through this abuse of syntax. Rather, the worst of it is that I’ve fooled myself.”

Justice Lies Deception Agendas Manipulation Piety Distortions Syntax False Advertising

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“I am here to tell you that the limitations that you see within yourself are a manifestation of everything except yourself.”

Belief Self Esteem Lies Self Confidence Deception Limitations False Self Perception

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“Let us not fall prey to the leaching negativity and rank pessimism that runs unleashed all around us. Rather, with the utmost determination we must bring ourselves to understand that these lies have been given legitimacy by people who thought themselves as powerless in the face of them, rather than recognizing that we have the power to rip the face off of them.”

Culture Change Powerful Lies Pessimism Negativity Powerless Politically Correct Transform

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Everything feverishly works to convince us that they can be everything that we need. And when will the level of our impoverishment finally convince us that we should be unconvinced?”

God Christian Values Faith Jesus Lies Priorities Impoverishment

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“I tend to think that our arrogance peaks at those times when we think that we can trade truth for our makeshift renditions. But as I think about that a bit more, maybe it’s less arrogance and more outright ignorance.”

Truth Sin Lies Blind Ignorant Deception Deceit Agendas Arrogant Distortions

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“Likely one of the biggest failures is believing that I’m always on verge of failure. An even bigger failure is to believe that I can’t do anything about that.”

Truth Failing Failure Confidence Lies Defeat Fail Lose Distortions Misperception

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“Far too often, the best thing I can have in my hand when someone makes a promise is a really big broom so that I can sweep up the broken pieces.”

Commitment Lies Disappointment Betrayal Deception Deceit Promises Broken Promises Broom Backstab

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“It is in opposing the world’s lies that we impose truth in our hearts.”

World Heart Truth Lies Opposing Distortion False Impose

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“The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.”

“If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place.”

“Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.”

“The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.”

World Soul Success Death Spirit Fear Failure Safe Lies Frightened Fight Scream Dead Hide Up Down Distortions Flee Safer

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“I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true.”

Truth Failure Cost Lies Intelligence Denial Deception True Fail Distortion Failed Skewed

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“What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is that I don’t believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place.”

Opportunity Fear Self Esteem Lies Self Confidence Opportunities Frightened Fearful Possibilities Inadequate Apprehension

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“Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth.”

Truth Values Honest Eternal Ethics Lies Independent Defense Firm Morals Fact Principle Distortions Unwavering Fabrication Defend Standard

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“How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I’ve really been doing is running?”

Life Running Fear Journey Lies Scared Deception Fake Deceit Frightened Hiding Lie Boast Run Hide Flee Boasting Spin Deserts Distort Ascents

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“If I assume the ‘truth’ to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my ‘truth.’ And the ‘truth’ of the matter is, when I do this I’ve chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods where neither path nor woods exist.”

Truth Lies Selfish Fact Egoism Distortion Agenda Egocentrism Negotiate Compromise

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“It’s not that I’ve ‘faked my own death’ as the saying goes. Maybe it’s that I’ve ‘faked my own life,’ and in doing so I’ve yet to realize how dead I really am.”

Life God Death Living Lies Deception Fake Dead Lie Faked

Book:An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons

Source: An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons

“A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I think myself to be, I would be wise to understand that God designed truth as ultimately tamper-proof.”

God Truth Lies Justify Truthfulness Rationalize Distortions Adjust Justifications Modify Tampering

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.”

God Truth Jesus Lies Denial Agendas Distortion Distort

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“The greatest fool is not the person who has been fooled by the lies of others, despite how crafty and ingenious those lies might have been. Rather, it is the fool who has lied with such amazing dexterity and subtle finesse that he himself has come to believe his own lies. And this is the most forlorn and yet the most dangerous person that I can imagine.”

Wisdom Lying Lies Stupidity Deceit Deceived Error Foolhardy Fool Foolish

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“The problem with the truth is that it will demand everything of us, but in the end it will give everything to us. If we make it ‘relative’ it will demand nothing of us, but in the end it will take everything from us.”

Truth Lies Foolish Truthful Consequences Deceptive Distortions Devious

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“The need to deceive oneself in order to live in the comfort of the lie is to kill oneself through the absence of the truth.”

Truth Faith Lies Denial Deception Manipulation Kill Self Destruction Sabotage

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“One of the greatest lies is to believe that we don’t have value. One of the greatest mistakes is to act on that belief. And the greatest liberation is found in looking at the cross of Christ and realizing the enormity of the lie.”

God Christian Christ Freedom Christianity Self Esteem Lies Value Self Worth Mistakes Liberation Worth Mistaken Cross Misled Self Concept Enormity Freed

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“Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.”

Pain Relationships Hurt Lies Committed Betrayal Selfish Commit Selfishness Betray Self Interest Friendships Advancing Sabotage Affairs Marriages Advance

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“The existence of truth is evidenced by our fear of it.”

Reality Government Truth Politics Media Honesty Lies True Fact

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