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The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible for the splendour of our cathedrals, the second for the gargoyles that decorate them to remind us that the world is full of monsters, devils, and succubi.

The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.

The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. Your weak weaknesses are no use to them.... They find the strongest weaknesses you didn't know were yours and use those against you.

The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros. Then, little by little, the plants of the desert begin to identify themselves: the porcupiny yucca, the beaver tail and prickly pear and barrel cacti, buckhorn and staghorn and devil's fingers, the tall, sky-reaching tendrils of the ocotillo.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.

The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

The devil made you a slave. Your waitin' for the devil to come from the ground. Take a look around. Just look at the cross that the priest is holdin'. A beast, in sheep's clothin'. You are the prince of darkness. Hell born, demonic.

The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry.

The devil comes and soon my subconscious and conscious might start to brawl. As this cunning demon takes me as its voodoo doll.

The devil did not make me do it. I managed it all by myself.

The devil doesn't care how big your church is - he cares how influential it is.

The devil doesn't wear prada; I'm clearly in a -- white tee.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.

The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.

The Devil craps on the big pile

The Devil deserves zero tolerance.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

The devil has convinced so many people that they are worthless. Each of us needs to stop and remember the cross-at the cross we will discover our true value-for it is here that we discover the price God was willing to pay for us, the depth of His love, and how much we are worth to Him.

The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

The devil is not as black as he is painted.

The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.

The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.

The Devil knows your name but calls you by your sin. God knows your sin but calls you by your name.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.

The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

The devil resists serious, focused prayer because he's defeated by it. And so the devil will try to attack our concentration in prayer; he will try to confuse or contradict the content of our prayers; he will do his best to distract and/or divert us in prayer so that we're crippled by inconsistency.

The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.

[The Devil's] laws are easy, and his gentle sway, Makes it exceeding pleasant to obey .

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.

The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.

The devil considers all misplaced trust as devil worship, for he hides himself in its shadows.

the devil does not have a fork Brianna, he has a whip

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.