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Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.

Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil.

Anything that God wants you to have, there's no devil in hell and no person on earth that can keep you from having it if you just won't quit and give up.

Anytime something makes money, no matter how outré, it's instantly mainstream. A good example is rock 'n' roll. When rock 'n' roll was first played to a wide audience it was considered the devil's music.

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!

As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the answers will come. When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

A sour religion is the devil's religion.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.

A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a Devil, then we must cast it out. But we cannot know what it is until we have met it face to face.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.

At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths.

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

At the threshold of every transition in our lives the devil send a spirit of fear. Therefore be strong and very courageous!

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

Basque is one of the world's more alarming languages. Only a handful of adult foreigners, they say, have ever managed to learn it. The Devil tried once and mastered only three words - profanities, I assume.

A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.

Bedevil the devil and devil be dammed. I fear no devil and bow to no man. - Adam Black

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, "awe s***.. they're up".

Behind the cross is the devil.

Believer's should never deal with doubts and fears because they are the devil's narcotics.

Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils.

Beware of anger. It is the most difficult to remove of all the hindrances. But it is the alcohol of the body, you know, and the devil of it is that it deadens the perceptions.

Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

Black hair, angelic face, and devil eyes.

Bloody Facebook- and to think I'd enjoyed The Social Network. Clearly Mark Zuckerberg was the devil.

Blue Devils may have won today. Devil gonna lose tomorrow.

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

But he didn't need to seek visual confirmation of what he'd just heard to know she had. And the truth was, he couldn't blame her. He'd not have let her die, either. He'd have moved mountains. He'd have battled God or Devil for his wife's life. She'd betrayed him. He smiled faintly.

But even so, we're not devils, let alone gods. We're human. We're human!