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Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

Our murmuring is the devil's music.

Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!

Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

O you beast! I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron, That you shall think the devil is come from hell.

Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for the immortals!

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

Perfectionists are their own devils.

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.

Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God.

Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn.

Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Refrain to-night; 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, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

Rock has always been the devil's music... I believe that rock & roll is dangerous... I feel that we're only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Remember that Abraham Lincoln was a Whig far longer than he was a Republican. As a whole, the Whigs looked upon banks and corporations as a more efficient means of development; the Jacksonian Democrats thought they were the tools of the devil, but Whigs like Lincoln disagreed. During his presidency, Lincoln favored the re-construction of a national financial system, and his most important 'internal improvement' project was the Pacific railroad.

Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.

Regular and simple life is the life of God; the chaotic and the complex one is the Devil's!

Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!

Remember, the Devil loves to make us focus on the little that's wrong so we miss the big picture of all that's right.

Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.

Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

Satan has many helpers.

Satan is always looking for legal right and authority to torment and attack people. Whatever he has the right to do, the devil will do.

Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder.

Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

Satan is around y'all. Devil on your shoulder. All these niggas is corn, sworn in secret societies, devils with no horn.

Say the truth and shame the devil.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!