Quotes about Devise
In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
- Psalm 10:2
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- Psalm 52:2
They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
- Psalm 64:6
Deceit is in the hearts of those who devise evil, but the counselors of peace have joy.
- Proverbs 12:20
There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
- Jeremiah 48:2
This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
- Ezekiel 38:10
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
- Micah 2:1
This, then, do you consider, and devise how both you yourselves may be saved and this land, and I be not brought into ill odor with the citizens; for I have not absolute sovereignty, as over barbarians; but if I do just things, I shall receive just things.
- Euripides
Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.
- Abraham Lincoln