Quotes about Deceitful

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

There are restrictions to entering heaven. The Scripture says: "Nothing impure will ever enter [heaven], nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life" [Revelation 21:27 NIV].

Instead of following your heart, you are choosing to lead to lead it. The world says to follow your heart, but if you are not it, then someone or something else is. The Bible says that the heart is more deceitful than all else (Jeremiah 17:9), and it will always pursue that which feels right at the moment.

A truthful witness saves lives, but one who utters lies is deceitful.

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

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

All sufferers can find comfort in the solidarity of the Crucified; but only those who struggle against evil by following the example of the Crucified will discover him at their side. To claim the comfort of the Crucified while rejecting his way is to advocate not only cheap grace but a deceitful ideology.

[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

Open rebuke is better than secret love.Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

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

When the prophet Jeremiah, for example, says, "The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick: Who can understand it?" we have to recognize from our heart that we are the ones spoken of, that, indeed, I am the one described. Only then is a foundation laid for spiritual formation into Christlikeness.

The one with a perverse heart finds no good, and he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.