Top 100 Quotes About The Devil
#2. We till shadowed days are done,
We must weep and sing
Duty's conscious wrong,
The Devil in the clock
W. H. Auden
#3. As she walked up the street, Raleigh couldn't shake the feeling that she'd just struck a deal with the devil.
Taisha DeMay
#4. The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind.
(Marco)
Iain Pears
#5. Don't be deceived by Satan and his lies. Instead, stay close to Christ - because the closer you are to Him, the farther away you are from the devil.
Billy Graham
#6. Arm there," she said. "Other arm, idiot. Now hand there ... okay, ready? We're going to start with your left foot. On three. One. Two ... What the devil is he doing here?
John Flanagan
#7. If only you
could see me as the Devil does:
palatable & raw;
chasing a chance blue moon
Virginia Petrucci
#8. 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.
Charles Spurgeon
#9. The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#10. We can't flee from temptation in our own strength - but God will give us the strength we need, if we'll only seek it. A friend of mine says, When the devil knocks, I just send Jesus to the door!
Billy Graham
#11. My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery, or ceasing to prate on the rights of man.
William Lloyd Garrison
#12. Richard Grunberger points out in The Twelve-Year Reich, the Jew served a necessary psychological function. "Just as primitive man's concept of God supposed the existence of the Devil, so the German's progressive self-deification during the Third Reich depended upon the demonization of the Jew.
Leonard Gross
#13. I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.
Tori Amos
#14. I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels.
Neil Young
#15. I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.
Martha Stout
#16. You got to realize; you're the Devil as much as you're God.
Charles Manson
#17. Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.
Joe Hill
#18. Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. Let us not give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.
Pope Francis
#20. I live in a box of paints
I'm frightened by the devil
And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid
Joni Mitchell
#21. The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.
Paulo Coelho
#22. We have the power of the Holy Cross, our holy symbol, the divine grace of Christ, only as long as we have the holy marking of the Holy Baptism, meaning we have denied the devil and sided with Christ, and received the Holy Marking, the seal of the Gift of the Holy Spirit.
Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos
#23. You really are here. (Thanatos)
Hair of the dog, baby. Sooner or later, we all dance with the devil. Tonight, it's your turn. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#25. The Devil, of course, must have been or must be a very charming person.
Max Von Sydow
#26. Hey, Sethy! If I could bottle and sell the way I'm feeling right now, I think I'd make enough money to buy Kurt Cobain's soul back from the devil
-Kaye
Charlie Fey
#27. If it is the devil that tempts the young to enjoy themselves, is it not the same personage that persuades the old to condemn their enjoyment? And is not condemnation perhaps merely a form of excitement appropriate to old age?
Bertrand Russell
#28. The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.
Thomas A Kempis
#30. It is at the time of spiritual wilderness experience that the devil begins to remind us about the past
Sunday Adelaja
#32. The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?
David Lloyd-Jones
#33. Money, you think, is the sole motive to pains and hazard, deception and devilry, in this world. How much money did the devil make by gulling Eve?
Herman Melville
#34. Laziness in Prayer Another weakness that gives the devil opportunity is when our prayer life declines. For example, the apostles in the Garden of Olives abandoned Jesus when he most needed their presence and friendship. Instead
Ed Broom
#35. Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.
Herman Melville
#36. You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer, when Mama prayed.
Randy Travis
#37. Better the devil you know.
I wonder why the only choice is twixt two devils, tho.
Patrick Ness
#39. A lot of Christians are blaming the devil for their own self-inflicted wounds.
Joyce Meyer
#40. I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#41. We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business ...
Margaret Deland
#43. Religious sects, established and marginal, and some newly invented for the purpose, were dissecting the theological implications of the Message. Some thought it was from God, and some from the Devil. Astonishingly, some were even unsure.
Carl Sagan
#44. The soul shall mightily rule in all hidden secrets: but it must not let in the devil.
Jakob Bohme
#45. The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#46. Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.
Anthony Horowitz
#47. Should-haves are the devil's greatest tool against our personal progress. He shouts in our ears that they are failures, while God calmly whispers they are lessons.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#48. You know the proverb, Mr. Hale, 'set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil' - well, some of these early manufacturers did ride to the devil in a magnificent style - crushing human bone and flesh beneath their horses' hoofs without remorse.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#49. Oh my God, she'd kissed him! She'd stuck her tongue inside a creature from hell. Oh jeez, this would sound great in confession. Say two Hail Marys and avoid further contact with the spawn of the devil.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#50. I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.
Peter Criss
#51. No one crosses my friends and gets away with it. Not even the devil. If he so much as tries to lay a finger on you, I'll glitter bomb the shit out of him.
Laura Thalassa
#52. I don't go online when I'm writing - that's the devil's workshop - but in general, I'm on there as much as any other global citizen.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#53. I loved the True Crime Story "Fighting the Devil" by Jeannie Walker. It is such an interesting book.
Jeannie Walker
#54. I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.
Philippa Gregory
#55. The devil can quote Scripture," she said.
"No doubt he had his hand in writing it," the captain shot back. - The Red Knight
Miles Cameron
#56. Not. Lermontov's Tamara was lonely and she saw the devil.
Anton Chekhov
#57. Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
#58. Will the devil be home?"
"My grandma is not the devil," Ben said, smiling despite the insult. "Besides, isn't the devil a male?"
"I thought so until I met your grandma. Could you tell her to stop calling me Fatty?"
"You could stand to lose a little weight.
Victor Kloss
#60. If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
G.K. Chesterton
#62. I work from opposites to opposites, in a way. It's finding one thing and then doing the other from film to film. So maybe after 'I Saw the Devil,' I might do something like 'I Saw the Angel' or perhaps something warm and happy.
Kim Jee-woon
#64. and when you are asked whence you come, you must say, from hell, and when you are asked who you are, you are to say, the devil's sooty brother, and my king as well." The
Jacob Grimm
#65. All good things, all godly things, have been counterfeited by the devil.
Jeff Iorg
#66. For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Martin Luther
#67. What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.
William Bennett
#68. Who ever said keeping the law of the Lord is peaceable work? The devil brings a sword and I bring a sword back to him. It is the will of the Lord and I am his servant.
Joe R. Lansdale
#69. They say that the Devil is a charming man. And just like you I bet he can dance.
Kate Bush
#70. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange - meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.
Anthony Burgess
#71. You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.
Paulo Coelho
#72. Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.
John Ruskin
#73. You don't believe in God, Rachel. You don't believe in goodness or love
or mercy, do you?"
"I haven't seen enough to form an opinion."
"But you believe in the devil?"
"When I'm sitting in a car with him, yes," she said.
Anne Stuart
#74. The devil you knew was always preferable to the devil you didn't.
Stephen King
#75. Using death to defeat death ... wow. No way the devil saw that one coming.
Mark Hart
#76. Now that is the real thing, the straight goods from the mass unconscious, friend; that little girl is a witch. There's just no place for her to function in this society. She'd have seen the devil, if she hadn't been brought up on The Bionic Man and all those Star Trek reruns.
William Gibson
#78. If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
James Russell Lowell
#79. Hold hands with the devil until you are both over the bridge.
Or kill the devil and burn the bridge so no one can get to you.
Kiersten White
#81. The devil ain't got no music. All music is God's music.
Mavis Staples
#82. Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible ... then may the Devil take you!
Albert Einstein
#83. Some truly bad writing, but brilliantly funny at the same time.
"When he was yet a million miles away the bright ring of fire that marked its portal filled the sky in front of him, flexing and twisting like the devil's anus in spasms of immortal agony.
Alan Glasser
#84. She wasn't mine. She hadn't been mine for a long time. She shouldn't be here and I shouldn't have asked. So instead of reassuring her, I kept leaning agains the tree looking like the devil and hoping she turned and ran. ~ The Vincent Boys
Abbi Glines
#85. Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.
Robert Ludlum
#87. God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.
Katherine Howe
#88. No one was meant to see hell before they got there. No one should have to live with the devil. So many homilies on faith were ruined once you no longer required it for belief.
Maggie Stiefvater
#89. Women were considered the snare of the Devil, while at the same time the cult of the Virgin made one woman the central object of love and adoration.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#90. The time is always now to declare your freedom!"
..."The Authority says that Anarchy is the devil. But I say that a man who's both an anarchist and a patriot has been ordained by God himself!
Logan Keys
#91. Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked.
C.S. Lewis
#92. When one is dining with the devil himself," I mutter, "a vast amount of preparation is in order.
Aprilynne Pike
#93. Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.
Horatio Nelson
#94. No offense intended to the satanists who might be reading this, but I have found that those who worship the devil tend to be sneaky, more deceitful by far than your average Methodist - and proud of it.
Dean Koontz
#95. He felt the devil twisting his tail, and pretended it was the angels smiling on him.
D.H. Lawrence
#96. It is a ruse of the devil, by which he deceives good people, to induce them to do more than they are able, so that they end up not being able to do anything. The spirit of God urges one gently to do the good that can be done reasonably, so that it may be done perseveringly and for a long time.
Vincent De Paul
#97. When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.
James Lee Burke
#98. Your guardian angel must have been working over time,' Penny laughed shakily.
Rose laughed as she put her arms around her sister and hugged her. 'More like the Devil taking care of his own.
Margaret Dickinson
#99. God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.
Ezra Taft Benson
#100. He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.
Robert South
