Too honest

We’re willing to lie to ourselves about our reality and about what we believe if it means we can have something that we want.—AHA Student Edition electronic edition

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He's definitely being too honest here, isn't he? We are great deceivers—especially of ourselves. That's why his second point is to be brutally honest with ourselves. And mind you, we can't even get there without the prompting of the Holy Spirit (which is his first point).
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