Quotes About Deceitful

Jeremiah said centuries ago: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?" (Jer. 17:9).

If we in the church want a cause to fight, let's fight sin. Let's reveal its hideousness. Let's show that Jeremiah was correct when e said: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" [Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV].

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

For so great is the influence of probity and chastity, that all men, or almost all men, are moved by the praise of these virtues; nor is any man so depraved by vice, but he hath some feeling of honor left in him. So that, unless the devil sometimes transformed himself, as Scripture says, into an angel of light, he could not compass his deceitful purpose.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Lokeij whistled. "Make the king's warriors vanish if they come. . . what a deceitful turtledove you are." Aly smiled at the sky. "Oh, don't,"she replied in the tones of a flirtatious court lady. "Stop, I insist. Your flattery makes me blush.

What is pan but a deceitful benediction on the vulgar and unhealthy fried? Where else might one fry his scallops with chilli and lime juice? In an egg timer?

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

The nheart is deceitful above all things, And 4desperately wicked; Who can know it?

One should seek for the salutary in the unpleasant: if it is there, it is after all nectar. One should seek for the deceitful in the pleasant: if it is there it is after all poison.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Cunning people find other people to drown for them.

Truth cannot be defined by the individuals who have been created because individuals are finite beings with limited knowledge and deceitful hearts (see Jeremiah 17:9).

Men are such faithless creatures

This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, - There's nothing true but Heaven.

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

O LORD, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.

You are a conniving, deceitful hussy. I stand in awe." "You're sitting." "I sit in awe.

That was Kaz: carnal and elegant. And deceitful. And narcissistic. And, honestly, kind of dumb.

The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?"50

30Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.