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“The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.”

Ifs Humans Faces Promise Deserve Weak Appearance Deception Wicked Guarantees Consideration Betrayed Malice Whips Brows Human Faces

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'My heart is deceitfully wicked.' No, it's not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.”

Heart Stills Christian Christ Views My Heart Promise Wicked Testament Covenant Old Testament Jeremiah

Author:John Eldredge

“The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.”

Men Giving Fall Easy Practice Willing Promise Flesh Deception Indifference Wicked Mutual Indulgence Entrances

Book:Commentary on Luke

Source: Commentary on Luke

“Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break every last one of them? All except for one, I suppose: the promise to judge ourselves by those standards, the promise to remember the child who would be so appalled by compromise, the child who would find jadedness wicked.”

Mean Children Would Be Lasts Remember Break Judging Promise Standards Adults Being True Compromise Wicked

Book:Lit Riffs

Source: Lit Riffs

“We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.”

Littles Alive Promise Wicked Witch Brat Gingerbread Wicked Witch

Author:Orson Scott Card

“I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men. I promise I will henpeck him until he has no life beyond what I allow him, and when we die, I will lie in his arms through all eternity.”

Men Running Lying Dies Arms Promise Eternity Wicked I Promise Gamble

Author:Christina Dodd