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The Stones suggested that if you dabble in decadence, you could turn into a devil-worshipping junkie. Paul McCartney suggested that if you mess around with girl worship, you could turn into a husband. So Paul was a lot scarier.

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

The thing that makes us know that this "latter rain" that is flooding the world with the glory of God is of the Lord, is because the devil is not in such business.

The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

The ultimate cause of spiritual depression is unbelief. For if it were not for unbelief, even the devil could do nothing. It is because we listen to the devil instead of listening to God that we go down before him and fall before his attacks.

The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests, and stand in the front line against heretics, the devil, and all the world. But where do you find that?

The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of the living dead to slaughter them all in their sleep. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

They were devils incarnate.

The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.

They say that God is in the details. Then again, they also say that the Devil is in the details. Boy, talk about awkward.

The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself - a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three.

They [German princes] made a pact with the devil and landed in hell.

They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.

Through my life, [there have been] a lot of devils and a lot of situations, so I'm just goin' hard, maintaining, regardless of what people got to say about Ace Hood.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.

Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.

This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.

This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.

[To a priest who smoked:] What a shame for a man to dress like a saint and smell like a devil!

To be a great pilot you have to make a pact with the devil, but don't let him swallow you up.

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.

Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep’s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.

To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: To this point I stand,-- That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.

[To her younger sister on using drugs:] If you do that stuff, you're dancing with the devil, because you never know when you're going to cross the line and not be able to get back.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

To horse and away To the heart of the fray! Fling care to the Devil for one merry day!

To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?

Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.