Quotes about Deceitful

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).

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].

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

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.

O, Lord, how devious we can be! Our hearts are deceitful, and we look quickly for reasons to believe that our disobedience is not serious. Humble us before the truth that there is one Judge and one God whose fellowship and fatherly delight is more precious than all the pleasures of sin. Forbid that we would forfeit this fortune -- even for a season -- while justifying our sin by thinking that it is small and partial surrounded by other good deeds.

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.

Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain, but I should not have minded finding that out for myself, if it had been so ordained. I have no doubt we will all be beautiful when we are angels, but what good will it do us then?

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

Beauty is often deceitful and vain . You've grown up with beautiful women around you . You know how treacherous they can be. - Bathsheba

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

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