Quotes About Angels And Devils

#1. He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

Khalil Gibran

#2. It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

John Steinbeck

#3. His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that ... only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

Anais Nin

#4. Mankind have angels and devils, this thing is called balance!

Deyth Banger

#5. All thy passions in the end became virtues, and all thy devils, angels.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.

Charles Spurgeon

#7. I believe there is no heaven or hell. There are no devils or angels. No afterlife or salvation. My soul won't be incarnated or lost in the oblivion. One day, I will just stop existing ... and that's it!

Bhavya Kaushik

#8. Only I was capable of saving her now, and that, as far as anyone could argue, may have made me worse than all the devils and the demons, but it also, more accurately, made me better than all the angels and gods.

Alistair Cross

#9. In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

John Donne

#10. I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint
I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find ...

Tom Waits

#11. All that is mere
rationalism; the superstition (that is the unreasoning repugnance
and terror) is in the person who admits there can be angels but
denies there can be devils. The superstition is in the person who
admits there can be devils but denies there can be diabolists.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. Yes," said Hardacre, "but it's not real. We're not real. And when the story is all told, when He writes 'The End' at the bottom of the last page, then all this will wrap up. No more Hell, no more Heaven, no more angels, devils, saints or sinners. The story's done. It will be as if we never were

Matthew Hughes

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

Michael Dertouzos

#14. Even angels need angels," she whispered. "And sometimes devils too.

Michael Robb

#15. The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful quality, in the quality of fierceness and wrath, destruction or perdition.

Jakob Bohme

#16. I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils sporting horns and carrying pitchforks. To me, angel wings are merely symbolic of their role as divine messengers.

Richard Paul Evans

#17. The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

William Blake

#18. Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. Wagers and pacts are made with angels - or with devils.

Paulo Coelho

#20. We are their gods, their angels, their devils, and their dreams. We could rule them.

Pippa DaCosta

#21. Brandy, which is fallen and accursed wine, as devils are fallen and accursed angels ...
("The Wondersmith")

Fitz-James O'Brien

#22. Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
For in best understandings sin began,
Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
Are beasts in all but white integrity.

John Donne

#23. I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

Martin Luther

#24. Even angels have a past and even devils have a future.

Jennifer T. Alli

#25. Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.

William Hurlbut

#26. Souls, Ms. Ellis, are for people who blame devils for their illness and praise angels for the cure. I do neither.

Thomas Trask

#27. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

Anne Nicol Gaylor

#28. Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils; not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious.

Bertrand Russell

#29. [Believers] have joy and comfort-that joy that angels cannot give, and devils cannot take.

Christopher Fowler

#30. Angels often flee from people who scream too loudly - they know at such moments how close the man or woman is to us, and they feel outnumbered. For devils rush in to attend such outcries.

Norman Mailer

#31. Your body is woven
from the light of heaven.
Are you aware
that its purity and swiftness
is the envy of angels
and its courage
keeps even devils away.

Rumi

#32. Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

William Blake

#33. Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

C.S. Lewis

#34. The fiend with all his comrades Fell then from heaven above, Through as long as three nights and days, The angels form heaven into hell; And them all the Lord transformed to devils, Because they his deed and word Would not revere.

Caedmon

#35. 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