The Heart Is Deceitful Quotes

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

James MacDonald

#2. I reminded myself that the heart is deceitful above all things - Addison Goodheart pg. 88

Dean Koontz

#3. Sometimes the heart makes decisions the mind cannot, and though we know that the heart is deceitful above all things, we know that at rare moments of stress and profound loss it can be purged pure by suffering.

Dean Koontz

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

T. S. Eliot

#5. If you had no devil to tempt you, no enemies to fight you, and no world to ensnare you, you would still find in yourself enough evil to be a sore trial to you, for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. 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].

Billy Graham

#7. The mind, it can be a deceitful thing. But it is no match for the heart.

K.A. Tucker

#8. Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.

Charles Kingsley

#9. The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

Pat Robertson

#10. A kind 'no' from the heart is better than a deceitful 'yes' from the tongue.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. Anne gave a little giggle. 'Oh what a tragedy Queen! You can smile while your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.

Philippa Gregory

#12. The eye is deceitful as well as the heart.

Margaret Oliphant

#13. Spiritual pride is the worst of all pride, if it is not the worst snare of the devil. The heart is peculiarly deceitful on just this one thing.

Ichabod Spencer

#14. I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.

Gen Urobuchi

#15. ...his words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.

Joseph Conrad

#16. Let the inquiring Christian trample under foot every slippery trick of his deceitful heart and insist upon frank and open relations with the Lord.

A.W. Tozer