Quotes about Astray

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’

For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.

I am quite content with philosophic contemplation. But, as the nineteenth century has gone bankrupt through an over-expenditure of sympathy, I would suggest that we should appeal to science to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

In thousands of churches [people] are led astray theologically. Thus spiritually and morally they are drifting aimlessly, without compass or guide.

I walk unseen on the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, like one that had been led astray through the heav'n's wide pathless way, and oft, as if her head she bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.