“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear” (Coleman Luck, Day of the Wolf).

Paul wrote as much centuries ago:

“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths” (2 Timothy 4:3-4, ESV).