Why is flattery so effective in leading people away from the Lord?

Thomas R. Valletta

“Satan is the world’s master in the use of flattery, and he knows the great power of speech (see Jacob 7:4)” (Faust, “Great Imitator,” 34). President Harold B. Lee observed that flattery “ofttimes means to merely satisfy the individual’s vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatterer into the good graces of the flattered” (Teachings of Harold B. Lee, 199).

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