I know a woman (a nonbeliever), who has a pet phrase: oh, I don't get angry - life is too short!
It's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard, because she most certainly does get angry, but she hides it and gets even in sneaky P/A ways.
I can sometimes get her to see that she is, in fact, angry, but mostly, she is so attached to her stage set that she becomes furious if I try to peek behind it and make her be truthful. In fact, if I do this, another of her pet phrases comes out : that's YOUR truth, it not MY truth.
I expect to see all of these behaviors and obfuscations in an unbeliever. But it shocks me to see them in a believer.