But Father Jeremiah said the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
It will be uphill work, I expect, for Mrs. Thomas often told me I was desperately wicked.
Most of us like the idea that we could be desperately wicked if only we let ourselves go.
The severest thing that the priest does is the excluding those that are desperately wicked from joining in their worship.
I do know that the Bible says that men's hearts are 'desperately wicked' and 'who can know them?
I am desperately wicked; can it be that you will pardon me?
I do not mean, of course, that the people who do this are not desperately wicked.
She may be a prophetess, or a consoler, or a snare, but she is no more "deceitful and desperately wicked" than anybody else.
Christianity also sees the true self negatively, distorted through sin: 'The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?'
"The Bible says the heart is desperately wicked, and who can know it?"