Lies successively weaken your capacity to do what you determine is best

Lying weakens your faith. Faith is a principle that means much more than just belief in religious ideas. Faith is a measure of how much you are willing to believe and do when given sufficient reason to.¹ Like awareness, a person’s faith will grow or diminish all at once. A person’s faith grows or diminishes in general depending on how they use or deny faith in specific instances. Specific acts of faithfulness will increase faith in all things for the one who does them. Similarly, specific instances of faithlessness will diminish faith in all things for the offender.

Faith manifests in the goodness and longevity of the outcomes we obtain and the intensity of the obstacles we overcome to do so. The more dishonest you are, the more you will shrink from opportunities to live life fully, no matter how much evidence you have that living life fully is worth the cost. Dishonesty reduces tenacity, achievement, and meaning in life.

The more you live in the truth, the more reasons you will have to live with intention and tenacity, both of which are required to find and maintain deep meaning in life. You can’t have self-respect, confidence, or improvement without seeing and admitting how you really are, perceiving and striving towards what is better, and achieving things that increase your objective and subjective merit. Those who live life most sincerely and zealously will find themselves growing in confidence that what is best is worth the price, and they will continuously desire and do what they perceive as best, even as their capacity to do more and the cost of doing so increases.²