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Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall and must remain; the devil shall not be able to overthrow it, much less the world be able to uproot it, how fiercely soever it rage.

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

Old Dublin City there is no doubtin' Bates every city upon the say. 'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin' And Lady Morgan making tay. For 'tis the capital of the finest nation, With charmin' pisintry upon a fruitful sod, Fightin' like devils for conciliation, And hatin' each other for the Love of God.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.

On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family.

One of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say `I cast out devils, and Jesus will say `I never knew you.

Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they understand when we seem less than perfect. And try to understand, ourselves, when they're not all we'd like them to be.

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

Our murmuring is the devil's music.

Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!

Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

O you beast! I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron, That you shall think the devil is come from hell.

Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for the immortals!

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

Perfectionists are their own devils.

Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God.

Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.

Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.

Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.

Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn.

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

Refrain to-night; 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, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God!

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.