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the flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.

The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when Job insists that his sufferings have no explanation and that he cannot discover the reason for them through conventional ethical concepts, his friends turn into accusers, and curse Job as a sinner. Thus, instead of consolers, they become torturers by virtue of their very morality, and in so doing, while claiming to be advocates of God, they act as instruments of the devil.

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.

The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was the quarter from behind the ear gag. He would never put the time in.

The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled Was convincing women that they looked Better in their makeup

The great Initiates in the spirit world have vast and imposing plans for the musical future. What is this plan? It is to use music as an occult medium through which to develop altered states of consciousness, psychic abilities, and contact with the spirit world. Music in the future is to be used to bring people into yet closer touch with the devils; they will be enabled to partake of the beneficial influence of these beings while attending concerts at which by the appropriate type of sound they have been invoked.

The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can.

The idle brain is the devil's playground.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.

The Lord is letting the wheat and the tares mature before he fully purges the Church. He is also testing you to see if you will be misled. The devil is trying to deceive the very elect.

The most important factor in abandoning our thoughts is to look in the Bible and see what God says about a matter. Then we must determine to act on His Word rather than on our own thoughts or those the devil may whisper into our minds.

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

The next time the devil tempts you to think that you are not worthy to approach God, here is what I advise: Agree. Say, “You are right. I am not worthy to approach God. I never was worthy to approach God. I never will be worthy to approach God. My access to God’s presence is not based on my worthiness, it is based on what Christ did for me on the cross.

The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.

The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

The Messenger has seen God. He was with Allah and was given divine patience with the devil. He is willing to wait for Allah to deal with this devil. Well, sir, the rest of us Black Muslims have not seen God, we don't have this gift of divine patience with the devil. The younger Black Muslims want to see some action.

the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God’s counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator.

The principle trap that the devil sets for young people is idleness.

There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.

There are three ways of trying to win the young. There is persuasion, there is compulsion, and there is attraction. You can preach at them: that is a hook without a worm. You can say, You must volunteer, and that is of the devil. You can tell them, You are needed. That appeal hardly ever fails.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?

There are religions in which the representation of the world is banned as an usurpation of the power of a God, creator of all things. It is very possible that photography is a trick of the devil and each shot is a sin.

...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is in control of every individual thing that happens, every event, but that unfortunately the devil is in control of the timing.

There is a Ruler above, and His Providence guides all things. He is our Friend and has plenty of work for all His people to do. It is such a blessing and a privilege to be led into His work instead of into the service of the hard taskmasters - the Devil and sin.

There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!