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'Sympathy for the Devil' is just another way of saying 'Compassionate Conservative'.

takes a devil to make a decent angel.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

Tell the devil to go to hell... that's where he belongs.

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself.

That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.

That which is lived becomes divine and that which is not lived bcms devil.

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!

The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use.

The attributes of God have been carefully explored. But the Devil's attributes have been left vague. I think I've found one of them. It is he who puts the prices on things." "Doesn't God put a price on things?" "No. One of his attributes is magnanimity. But the Devil is a setter of prices, and a usurer, as well. You buy from him at an agreed price, but the payments are all on time, and the interest is charged on the whole of the principal, right up to the last payment, however much of the principal you think you have paid off in the meantime.

The battle against the Devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the Devil is still alive and active in the world.

The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?

The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.

The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.

The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.

...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man.

The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for a short day, everyone will see what happened to those poor devils in those camps; tomorrow, very few will care what happens to them in the future.

The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible for the splendour of our cathedrals, the second for the gargoyles that decorate them to remind us that the world is full of monsters, devils, and succubi.

The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry.

The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros. Then, little by little, the plants of the desert begin to identify themselves: the porcupiny yucca, the beaver tail and prickly pear and barrel cacti, buckhorn and staghorn and devil's fingers, the tall, sky-reaching tendrils of the ocotillo.

The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same.

The Devil craps on the big pile

The Devil deserves zero tolerance.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

The devil has convinced so many people that they are worthless. Each of us needs to stop and remember the cross-at the cross we will discover our true value-for it is here that we discover the price God was willing to pay for us, the depth of His love, and how much we are worth to Him.

The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

The devil is not as black as he is painted.

The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.

The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.

The Devil knows your name but calls you by your sin. God knows your sin but calls you by your name.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.

The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.

The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

The devil resists serious, focused prayer because he's defeated by it. And so the devil will try to attack our concentration in prayer; he will try to confuse or contradict the content of our prayers; he will do his best to distract and/or divert us in prayer so that we're crippled by inconsistency.