Top 100 Devil To Quotes
#1. that's the story of how Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland forever and banished the Devil to England. Some people say that explains why there has always been such trouble between England and Ireland. The Devil stirs it up.
Frank Delaney
#2. Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there's the devil to pay.
Saul Bellow
#3. WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.
Ambrose Bierce
#5. Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
Milan Kundera
#6. Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation.
Carl Jung
#7. It takes two to tango but just one dance with the devil to bring the house down.
Jason Versey
#8. Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.
Austin O'Malley
#9. Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. A woman who wants to be the head of her home invites the Devil to take over her family. And the Devil has taken over many homes because the wife has refused to submit to the legitimate, biblical authority of her husband. The result is spiritual sickness and dysfunction.
Tony Evans
#11. We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons ...
Martin Luther
#13. People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
William Faulkner
#14. What we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or avoid in action. Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation, seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience, that we may never tempt the devil to tempt us.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#16. Tell the devil to go to hell ... that's where he belongs.
Mark Hart
#17. Woulda made a deal with the devil to get my wife and daughter back." He was still whispering and my breath stilled.
"Don't have that chance so nothin' I can do about that. But I darkened your door, baby, and you lit up my life again so I'm not lettin' that go.
Kristen Ashley
#18. If you got the devil to pay, he'll want extra red-eye on his biscuit. He always do.
Randy Thornhorn
#19. Only God could save me from a certain deadly fate, and so rightfully, he sent the devil to rescue me.
Jennifer Loren
#20. If we are established in a ministry it will be very difficult for the devil to uproot us
Sunday Adelaja
#22. Write it on the bottom of your shoes for the devil to read.
Brian McGreevy
#23. A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.
Edward Coke
#25. 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!
William Shakespeare
#26. It is counterproductive to the devil to remind you that you are God's beloved when he is tempting you.
Paul Silway
#27. You are the devil to talk to, Rachel," he said curtly. "Will you shut up and listen?
Kim Harrison
#28. It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.
Donald Miller
#29. You gotta dance with the devil to get out of Hell.
Jamie McGuire
#30. You have not been put on earth for the devil to torment you, you have been put on this earth to torment the devil.
Kris Vallotton
#31. It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust.
Gordon Klingenschmitt
#32. If a hole in your wall is large enough for a rat to get his head in, rats will soon take over your home. If there is a hole in your heart large enough for the devil to get his head in, he'll waste no time moving in too.
Nancy B. Brewer
#33. 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.
Richard Savage
#34. It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.
Hubert Van Zeller
#35. Living in L.A. sometimes felt like you were riding shotgun with the devil to the apocalypse.
Michael Connelly
#36. He must have made a deal with the devil to come back.
Lynsay Sands
#37. There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.
Henry Ward Beecher
#39. Whenever God is blessing, we can expect the devil to be opposing.
Greg Laurie
#42. You know what else that settles then tonight. This hue and cry and controversy that has been spawned by the devil to try and bring dissention within the body of Christ that we are gods. I am a little god.
Paul Crouch
#43. It is not necessarily impossible for human beings to fly, but it so happens that God did not give them the knowledge of how to do it. It follows, therefore, that anyone who claims that he can fly must have sought the aid of the devil. To attempt to fly is therefore sinful.
Roger Bacon
#44. Jesus did not come to the Earth to start 285 squabbling denominations fighting over the Bible. How like the devil to divide Christians over the Bible.
John Hagee
#45. What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ".
Paul Goodman
#46. Thus spoke the devil to me, once on a time: "Even God has his hell: it is his love for man". And lately did I hear him say these words: "God is dead: of his pity for man has God died".
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. While police officers who blatantly shaft the common people believe that they are God, they are the Devil to those that they wrong.
Steven Magee
#48. He's been sent by the devil to destabilize something that was already fragile. How could I fall in love so quickly with someone I don't even know?
Paulo Coelho
#49. If you lose, there's the devil to pay.
L.J.Smith
#50. Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling.
Martin Luther
#51. It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight L. Moody
#52. The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
Jerry Falwell
#53. God created the world and then created the devil, to blame for his mistakes.
Simon Le Bon
#54. There are so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives him the advantage oftentimes.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#55. When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.
George Bernard Shaw
#56. Will have to shake hands with the devil to save the innocent.
Cameron Jace
#57. I'd learned a long time ago that you can't prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it's the devil to prove you didn't do something.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#58. The white man was created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.
Malcolm X
#59. The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#60. It is better to follow God to danger than to follow the devil to peace.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#61. It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
Charles Baudelaire
#62. Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter ... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.
Ion Keith-Falconer
#63. The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
Augustine Of Hippo
#64. One man in a meeting, filled with unbelief, can make a place for the devil to have a seat.
Smith Wigglesworth
#65. Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for the immortals!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#66. How do you destroy a devil to save an angel who's torn out her own eyes to believe in only his whispered deceit in her ears?
Bishop Harber
#67. Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more people to hear them. But if I have to sell my soul to the devil to do it, I won't.
Pat Benatar
#68. A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.
Bill Johnson
#70. There are no signs of religion at all; no priest to hear my sins, no God to push open the pearly gates, nor a devil to welcome me with a pitchfork. All of this seems so meaningless.
Nicholas A. McGirr
#71. It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.
Adolf Hitler
#72. Sometimes I wondered if the angels talked to get me to behave or to entice the devil to come out to play.
Penelope Douglas
#74. 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.
Ice Cube
#75. When a country goes to war, it acts like a sociopath. It sends people like me out in the woods to do the most evil things we can think of, but everybody else pretends like they're on the side of the angels. The reality is, if the angels want to win, it takes the devil to succeed.
Jon Roberts
#76. Thus spoke the devil to me once: "God too has his hell: it is his love of man." ... And most recently I heard him speak this word: "God is dead: God died of his pity for man." - On the Pitying
Friedrich Nietzsche
#77. The light was everywhere. He would tell me later I looked like an angel... but he just looked like the same devil to me
Quil Carter
#78. If you had no devil to tempt you, no enemies to fight you, and no world to ensnare you, you would still find in yourself enough evil to be a sore trial to you, for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#79. Dancing is forbidden to Christians. Isn't it suggestive that the word ballet comes from the Greek ballo, which is also the origin of diabolos, "devil"?8
Peter J. Leithart
#80. God has a plan and the devil has a plan, and you will have to decide which plan you are going to fit into.
Billy Graham
#81. Over-confidence is the way to give your soul to the devil an inch at a time.
Joe R. Lansdale
#82. There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.
Ezra Taft Benson
#83. If you want to give the devil a message, write it on the bottom of your shoes.
Andrew Wommack
#84. The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.
Henry David Thoreau
#85. You got to tell me the brave captain
Why are the wicked so strong?
How do the angels get to sleep
When the devil leaves the porch light on?
Tom Waits
#86. Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to help these women combine their roles as mothers and as workers.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#87. God is building a mighty army to vanquish the forces of darkness. These soldiers of the light are initially conceived and nurtured in the wombs of women. As such, an obvious strategy for the devil would be to sabotage the womb to cut down the size of this godly army.
Theresa Pecku-Laryea
#88. You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil.
Walter E. Williams
#89. 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.
Sri Aurobindo
#90. Satan can move in the supernatural realm, too, because he is a spirit being, as is God. You've got to be able to know whether a vision, dream, impression, or suggestion is from God or Satan. Those suggestions that do not line up with the Word are of the devil.
Kenneth E. Hagin
#91. 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.
Saul Alinsky
#92. Orsini and one of his fellow conspirators were guillotined, and an accomplice called Carlo di Rudio was transported to Devil's Island, the notorious French prison camp in French Guiana. He escaped and later fought alongside General Custer at Little Big Horn. True to form, he survived.
Stephen Clarke
#93. If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more clever device.
Simone Weil
#94. There is simply something wrong with my conscience. I do try to wrestle with the devil as I ought, but, like Eve, even when tempted by the Forbidden Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, I succumb. Good as they are, how could my parents have bred a daughter like me?
Miriam Brenaman
#95. Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves in the inns, we make God angry; we are the unlucky lot stuck between two fires!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#96. The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of
other people's folly, not to mention their avarice and stupidity."
Roger Lowenstein, reviewing "Devil Take the Hindmost: a History
of Financial Speculation", WSJ 6-1-99
Roger Lowenstein
#97. When the whole point was that the Devil hardly ever made anyone do anything. He didn't have to.
Terry Pratchett
#98. But one place ain't no different from no place else. People try and make it like everything's new only to find the devil done followed you wherever you moved and all you can do is hold him off whiles you catch your breath
Amina Gautier
#99. In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.
Idries Shah
#100. Sociopath was really just a politically correct way to say "the devil".
Jack Pendarvis
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