Posts Tagged ‘lie’
No Excuses
I find myself making excuses all the time. I was running late and blamed it getting caught in the office. I could have politely excused myself about three minutes earlier and I’d been on time. I heard a preacher define “Excuse” many years ago and it has stuck with me. “An excuse is the skin…
Read MoreMy Lips Are Moving
Question: How can you tell if that guy is telling a lie? Answer: His lips are moving. There are people who are prone to lie. When my kids were growing up, I could navigate most any “lapse in judgement” they had, but I hate lies. A lie would receive some sort of punishment. I believe…
Read MoreTo Tell A Lie
It would straight up be a lie if I said that I had never lied. I’m embarrassed to share that because I’ve learned that a lie is straight from the pit of hell. Someone once said, that “a lie can be half-way around the world before the truth gets his running shoes on”. Lies really…
Read MoreTruth
I have been lied too before. I have been cheated. I have been misled. It is frustrating to take someone at their word, only to find out it’s not true. Trust is destroyed by lies and deceit. I believe truth to be absolute. It is not simply relative to whatever situation I find myself…
Read MoreEmpty Lies
There are people who could be called “professional liars”. They will tell you whatever you want to hear or they will tell some tall tale that distracts and distorts the truth. I have often said that I can work with the truth, no matter how hard it is to hear. I get extremely frustrated…
Read MoreTruth or Lie
I have always had a tough time with people who blatantly lie. Truth is a fundamental fabric to character. Lies and deceit are direct assaults upon this fundamental fabric. People who lie are impossible to trust because they don’t have a standard that they cling to or depend upon. They will move people and…
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