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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 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 universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass.

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

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 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 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'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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.

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.

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

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

They were devils incarnate.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.