Best 1646 quotes in «devil quotes» category

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

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

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 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 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 demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. Your weak weaknesses are no use to them.... They find the strongest weaknesses you didn't know were yours and use those against you.

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, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.

The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

The devil made you a slave. Your waitin' for the devil to come from the ground. Take a look around. Just look at the cross that the priest is holdin'. A beast, in sheep's clothin'. You are the prince of darkness. Hell born, demonic.

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

The devil comes and soon my subconscious and conscious might start to brawl. As this cunning demon takes me as its voodoo doll.

The devil did not make me do it. I managed it all by myself.

The devil doesn't care how big your church is - he cares how influential it is.

The devil doesn't wear prada; I'm clearly in a -- white tee.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.

The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments.

The Devil invented gambling.

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.

The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.

The devil only exists because of your belief in him; same goes for that other guy.

The devil considers all misplaced trust as devil worship, for he hides himself in its shadows.

the devil does not have a fork Brianna, he has a whip

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

The devil fears hearts on fire with love of God.

The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God.

The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he’s had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.