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An atheist has got one point beyond the devil.

And after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was continued through Ham's wife, as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through the flood? because it was necessary that the devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God

And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.

an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people... anybody who does these things is nothing but a devil.

Anyone who asserted wrong teachings, anyone serving the devil or his demons, earned instead an equally remarkable antagonism. In their official high meetings together, Christians thus could not keep their own disagreements within the bounds of civil language; their continual quarrels required the intervention of the civil authorities; and all this was well known and noted by friends and foes alike.

Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.

Anything that God wants you to have, there's no devil in hell and no person on earth that can keep you from having it if you just won't quit and give up.

Anytime something makes money, no matter how outré, it's instantly mainstream. A good example is rock 'n' roll. When rock 'n' roll was first played to a wide audience it was considered the devil's music.

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is false to the cross of Christ and on the side of the devil.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!

A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the answers will come. When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, 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.

A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a Devil, then we must cast it out. But we cannot know what it is until we have met it face to face.

A sour religion is the devil's religion.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

At the threshold of every transition in our lives the devil send a spirit of fear. Therefore be strong and very courageous!

As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths.

A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.

A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.

Basque is one of the world's more alarming languages. Only a handful of adult foreigners, they say, have ever managed to learn it. The Devil tried once and mastered only three words - profanities, I assume.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.