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

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass.

...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 in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

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!

There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker. To praise the devil is second nature. To praise God is an education.

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

There is the devil at the door. I'm nearly going under, can't help but wonder who am I working for? No one's more enslaved now then the ones who falsely feel they are free. I've come to terms with the fact that nothing is what it seems. This life is an illusion. And everything you thought you knew isn't what it seems. Only truth will set you free. This new world has begun.

There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

There's the devil to pay.

The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.

The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.

The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

The thing that makes us know that this "latter rain" that is flooding the world with the glory of God is of the Lord, is because the devil is not in such business.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

The ultimate cause of spiritual depression is unbelief. For if it were not for unbelief, even the devil could do nothing. It is because we listen to the devil instead of listening to God that we go down before him and fall before his attacks.

The Stones suggested that if you dabble in decadence, you could turn into a devil-worshipping junkie. Paul McCartney suggested that if you mess around with girl worship, you could turn into a husband. So Paul was a lot scarier.

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests, and stand in the front line against heretics, the devil, and all the world. But where do you find that?

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of the living dead to slaughter them all in their sleep. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much.

The way to deal with the devil of obesity and diabetes is literally one day at a time.

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

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.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself - a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three.