SCRIPTURE: “For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?” – (Luke 14:28 ESV) QUOTE: “Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It …
SCRIPTURE: “They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.” Hosea 7:3 KJV QUOTE: “Lies and secrets are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.” -Cassandra Clare NOTE: Don’t ever claim you’re too smart to lie or too spiritual to …
SCRIPTURE: “Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.” (Hosea 10:13 (KJV) QUOTE: “is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the …
SCRIPTURE: “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” (2 Timothy 3:13 (KJV) QUOTE: Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.” -Dorothy Allison NOTE: The crash or falling apart of any leader who is a chronic liar is always closer than they thought. …
SCRIPTURE: “If we say, “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8 (HCSB) QUOTE: “The human mind has infinite capacity to rationalize, and evil characters just push that boundary a bit. Whatever they are doing, they think it makes sense to do it, and they …
SCRIPTURE: “From the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what He has made. As a result, people are without excuse.” Romans 1:20. (HCSB) QUOTE: “People can rationalize in funny ways to hold onto their dreams and needs.” —Jesse Plemons …
SCRIPTURE “Christ has liberated us to be free. Stand firm then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.” (Galatians 5:1 (HCSB) QUOTE: “Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.”—-Douglas Copland NOTE: We should not blame God for our misfortunes …
SCRIPTURE: “Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead, expose them (Ephesians 5:11 (HCSB) QUOTE: “Violence against judges and threats of violence against judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.” —-John Conyers NOTE: We must avoid …
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SCRIPTURE: “Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for because of these things God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient. Therefore, do not become their partners. For you were once darkness, but now [you are] light in the Lord. Walk as children of light — for the fruit of the light [results] in all …
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SCRIPTURE: “I, therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received,” (Ephesians 4:1 (HCSB) QUOTE: “You cannot rationalize what is not rationale to begin with- as if lying were called “truthization”. There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the …
