Your astute observation brings to mind the consideration of "outcomes" before we proceed with words or actions. Should children be protected from the truth at times? I think the answer to that is likely yes, but are there also times when other adults should be protected from the truth? By omission; also a probable yes. By commission is a little tougher call but I can see where your point about truth vs lie set against good vs evil are on separate planes.
Yet our spiritual life is conducted "at the intersection of time and timelessness" (as T.S. Eliot put it): the "time" of our existence, and the "timelessness" of God's Eternal Now — if that makes any sense at all.
Whew! I'll have to study on that but it does put God in some perspective, at least as much in perspective as we can grasp. Infinitely unknowable but eminently reachable. His grace is a marvelous thing!
But without God to draw us, our propensity/susceptibility to evil will tend to overwhelm us, ineluctibly it seems.
No truer words...
And that is the truly amazing thing....
Thank you for your beautiful reflections, dear sister in Christ!
All thanks and praise be to God!