Best 1646 quotes in «devil quotes» category

When reason fails, the devil helps!

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know.

When the devil starts messing, God starts blessing.

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

When the devil is shouting 'no way', get ready...the way is about to show up.

When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.

When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say "Jesus, it's for you.

When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess thyself with true fear; when the devil brings thee oil, bring thou vinegar. The way to be safe is never to be secure.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.

When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them.

When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]

When we don't preach the LORD, we preach the Devil, and when we preach worldliness, we preach the Devil

When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

When you dance with the devil, you don't get to pick the tune.

When you don't pray, the devil rides ya when ya sleep

When you educate without the Holy Spirit, you only get a clever devil.

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt.

Why must I run against a Negro? We have had enough of Negroes running against and fighting with each other. The better bet is that we would put a Muslim candidate in the field against a devil, somebody who is against all we stand for.

Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commits acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.

Without Satan, no Christ.

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

World, death, devil, hell, away and leave me in peace! You have no hold on me. If you will not let me live, then I will die. But you won't succeed in that. Chop my head off, and it won't harm me. I have a God who will give me a new one.

Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion!

Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!

You are blinded and you serve the God of the Jews, who is not the God of love but the God of hatred. Why don't you listen to Christ Himself, who said to the Jews: "Ye are of your father the devil!

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you.

You are the devil to talk to, Rachel," he said curtly. "Will you shut up and listen?

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.

You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.

You can drive the devil out of your garden but you will find him again in the garden of your son.

You can do anything in the world if you say "Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it. It's an easy way to escape responsibility.

You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.