Best 1646 quotes in «devil quotes» category

If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

If I could ask Ken Lay one question right now, do you know what it would be? "Does the Devil really wear Prada?

If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.

If my devils are to leave me, I'm afraid my angels will take flight as well.

If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.

If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once.

If the Devil's in yer pants make cheese with him.

If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,'' I'd reply, ''so I can go on drinking and smoking!''

If [the devil has] brought you down, make sure that with Christ’s enabling you stand back up.

If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. (p. 175)

If the devil starts bringing up your past it's because he's running out of new material!

If the Devil can’t make us really bad, then he’ll try to make us really busy.

If the Devil is real, then God must be real, too.

If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!

If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

If the devil walks in and starts pointing out all kinds of things about you, you yawn. And you go, 'You don’t even know the half of it.'

If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor

If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.

If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.

If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

If you never bump into the devil, it’s because you’re going in the same direction.

If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

If you play a Nickleback song backwards you'll hear messages from the devil. Even worse, if you play it forwards you'll hear Nickleback.

If you're going through hell, Keep on going, don't slow down, If you're scared, don't show it You might get out Before the devil even knows you're there.

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.

If you sell your soul to the devil, you get more grain.

If you've got faith and you believe in what you are living for, you can stand your ground when the Devil's at your door.

If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.

I got a Lucifer soul. I'll be the Devil's son, Devil's work, gettin' work.

I have always been astonished that women were allowed to enter churches. What conversation can they possibly have with God? The eternal Venus (caprice, hysteria, fantasy) is one of the seductive forms of the Devil.

I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.

I have been waiting for the devil living inside of me to stop making love to all the ghosts you left behind.

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!

I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat--soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.