Best 1646 quotes in «devil quotes» category

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

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

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.

They were devils incarnate.

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

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.

'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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 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?

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.

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

To the devil with false modesty.

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.

Twitter is the Devil's playground.

Unless we are really trusting Him, where does the praise come in? This peace the Savior gives is not an artificial one. It is so deep that even the devil can't disturb it. You can't hear things in the Spirit while you have any turmoil or fear in you. You can't take a shade of fear into the presence of God.

Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.

Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.

We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own.

Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.

We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

We are on God's side. This is not a war between Arabs and Jews. It's a war between God and the devil.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

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

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.

Two half hitches around the horn will hold the devil as sure as you're born.

Use God's mighty weapons, not those made by men, to knock down the devil's strongholds.

Using death to defeat death... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.

Watching Clay Guida fight is like watching a Tasmanian devil.

Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled in the wrong. If we are without the thrill of communion with God, we will try to get thrilled by the devil, or by some concoction of human ingenuity.