Quotes About Devil

When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.

What would become of the world without the Devil? Under all the different systems of religion that have guided or misguided the world for the last six thousand years, the Devil has been the grand scapegoat. He has had to bear the blame of every thing that has gone wrong. All the evil that gets committed is laid to his door, and he has, besides, the credit of hindering all the good that has never got done at all. If mankind were not thus one and all victims to the Devil, what an irredeemable set of scoundrels they would be obliged to confess themselves!

God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true that spirits are very likely to lead men to the Devil. Too intimate acquaintance with whisky toddy overnight is often followed by the delirium tremens and blue-devils on the morrow. We advise our readers to eschew alike spirituous and spiritual mixtures. They interfere sadly with sober thinking, and play the Devil with your brains.

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.

They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think that lying would leave something of a sour taste. So my theory is that when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell.

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.

What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.

We are told that if you are not occupied with the mind all the time, then you will invite the devil. It is such a heightened misconception that people are going crazy just because of this. An empty mind is not the devil's home but an empty mind is the home of the Buddha.

I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

What is it?" she asked. "I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" "I'm afraid not," she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. "There's too much of the devil in me for that." "Just how much devil," I grinned, "are we talking about here?

Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

I'm Jewish. I've always had a thing where it's okay to dance with the devil, just don't become the devil.

Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge out your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only silence. Indifference. But merely stand looking at the playbills, sighing because your name is not on them, and the devil himself appears at your elbow full of sympathy and suggestions. And that's why I did it....Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.

From Eden is spoken from the Devil's point of view. I always loved in blues music how the Devil can be a character who walks and talks. So awful is your state that it seems to be a presence around you. I don't really spend time thinking about the nature of God but I'm interested in what people say about God, how it is used to control people and change policies in the physical realm.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

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

The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

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

I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone.

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.

When the devil is shouting 'no way', get ready...the way is about to show up.

Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.

I think my ex-girlfriend has weekly lessons with the devil on how to be more evil. I don't know what she charges him.

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.

In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.

I deteriorate. I might tell you something one day and then something else another day. You fold in on yourself and that's why this whole artistry thing is the devil. It's evil. I hope I don't succumb to it.

A stale mind is the devil's breadbox.

When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.

Wherefore is this? Because our common enemy, the Devil, endeavours with all his might to oppose the intentions of the God-man, Christ. He endeavours to do everything in opposition to what Christ did and does.

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

I look at Playtone, the company that produced My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I call them my Playtoners. They are the kindest people who treated me like gold before that movie made a dime. We became personal friends. When I think about how lovely and wonderful they are that convinces me that you don't have to make a deal with the devil to succeed. It's a choice.

Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." -

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's... But how does the great apostle spend his time in prison?... We read of no dispatches sent to court to procure his liberty; but many to the churches, to help them to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ had made them free... The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!