Best 1646 quotes in «devil quotes» category

An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

And after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was continued through Ham's wife, as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through the flood? because it was necessary that the devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God

And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.

an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people... anybody who does these things is nothing but a devil.

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

Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual quarrels required the intervention of the civil authorities; and all this was well known and noted by friends and foes alike.

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.

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.

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

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

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

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

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 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 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 sour religion is the devil's religion.

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 stale mind is the devil's breadbox.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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