A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.
It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.
I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.
God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
It is not being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable.
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
