I just thought of another one: "God wants you to have a teachable spirit"

I used to do whatever my pastor told me, and one day he "affirmed" me by saying that whereas many of the people in the congregation weren't teachable, I was a breath of fresh air because I was teachable. This stroked my ego and made me feel good because he was telling me I had a quality the others lacked.

Now I look back and think "gullible" would have been the more appropriate term.

Language is amazing isn't it?