The Devils Quotes

#1. You may have learned from your mother or any other hunted woman. Smiling at devils is a useful learned thing. Swallowing discomfort down in spades. Holding it tight in your belly. Ageing on the inside only. Keeping it forever sexy.

Yrsa Daley-Ward

#2. Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-and to cast out devils, rejecting evil thoughts sown by them, and extinguishing the excitement of passions enflamed by them.

Theophan The Recluse

#3. The devils themselves declared Him to be the Son of God; will you mistrust Him?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. As the science of every thing is in the formed Word, so also is God's will therein: That same expressed Word is in the angels, angelical; in the devils, diabolical; in man, human; in beasts, bestial.

Jakob Bohme

#7. The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him?

Richard Baxter

#8. The union with Christ which produces no effect on heart and life is a mere formal union, which is worthless before God. The faith which has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.

J.C. Ryle

#9. dream with the little devils for dream with the little angels', a common saying in Spanish. I instantly

Nina Lautner

#10. 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?

Gregory David Roberts

#11. She said several times that Malcollm was a fiend who was determined to destroy his children, and that I was the devil incarnate helping him. She hoped we would both rot in hell. (I thought devils and fiends might flourish there, actually.)

Dick Francis

#12. Ramirez walked ahead with a torch he'd fashioned from a stick and some rags and by that queer and reddish light, devils, or the shadows of devils hooked to the shoes of the men and capered across the stony earth.

Laird Barron

#13. Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the well wishers thereof ... They count as fables the holy mysteries of religion.

Roger Ascham

#14. The Devils also believe and know abundance: But in this is the Difference, their Faith works not by Love, nor their Knowledge by Obedience; and therefore they are never the better for them. And if ours be such, we shall be of their Church, not of Christ's: For as the Head is, so must the Body be.

Various

#15. O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils

Joseph Alleine

#16. Leviathan laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need furbishing, but prayer never rusts, and when we think it most blunt it cuts the best. Prayer is an open door which none can shut. Devils may surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#17. I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.

Martin Luther

#18. Don't think that just because you made it to the next level that the haters and naysayers disappear. Remember, new levels bring new devils.

Steve Maraboli

#19. Stern and white as a tomb, older than the memory of the dead, and built by men or devils beyond the recording of myth, is the mansion in which we dwell.

Clark Ashton Smith

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

Sean Young

#21. With the cross around his neck he could be his old self again, he could have it all back if he wanted it, but it wasn't worth having. If you were going to live in hell on earth, there was something to be said for being one of the devils. - Horns p.381

Joe Hill

#22. Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

C.S. Lewis

#23. The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.

Adrian Rogers

#24. Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.

Norman Mailer

#25. If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#26. Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery ...

Martin Luther

#27. When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

Park Chan-wook

#28. Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.

Francois Rabelais

#29. Devils?" he said, his mind finding its train of thought as his hand found his cigarette lighter. "Devils are superstitions. Products of small minds and even smaller imaginations. There's one word that should be banned from the dictionary - devils. Ha! Now there's a flippant word.

Jason Mott

#30. Below calls ditto. I'll get the almanac and as I have heard devils can

Herman Melville

#31. A few days of idleness have completely sickened me, and given me what is called the blue-devils so severely, that I feel that the sooner I go to work and drive them off, the better.

John James Audubon

#32. In Sartre's hell, there are no torture devices, no devils. Just the INABILITY to become the person that you are.

Keshni Kashyap

#33. I believe we are our own gods, and our own devils. Good and evil doesn't exist out there in the world, it exists in each and every one of us.

K.A. Hill

#34. Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to it. The common operations of nature have not escaped their practice of corrupting everything.

Thomas Paine

#35. Do you know the amount of evil done by well-meaning humans? Oodles. Do you know the amount done by ill-meaning devils? Infinitesimal.

Thomm Quackenbush

#36. No good sentences ever include the word 'should.' I should have paid the tavern bill; now they're coming to break my legs. I should never have run off with my best friend's wife; now she devils me constantly. I should -

Cassandra Clare

#37. The well-meaning woman was in fact possessed by two devils--the one the stiff-necked devil of pride, the other the condescending devil of benevolence. She was kind, but she must have credit for it

George MacDonald

#38. Those that we love, those essential beings, are removed from us at the will of the Almighty, or the devils that usurp them.

Sebastian Barry

#39. To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

Tryon Edwards

#40. Alas! There's no one in hell ... all the devils are here!

Aime Cesaire

#41. The devils at once, it matters not. We must fight him all the same. He went to the hall door for his bag, and together we went up to Lucy's room.

Bram Stoker

#42. Now," said Halt, "all I have to do is work out a way of beating these horse-riding devils."
Erak grinned at him. "That should be child's play," he said. "The hard part will be convincing Ragnak about it.

John Flanagan

#43. 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

#44. Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,
thou art honest.

William Shakespeare

#45. From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.

Charles Manson

#46. What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?

Terry Pratchett

#47. Jam on a winter took away the blue devils. It was like tasting summer.

Sandra Dallas

#48. But one day, you will be faced with a choice, as we all are. One day you will have to choose between your own desires, your own darkest impulses, and what you know to be right . . . and it will harden you. You will understand that all of us are devils in the skins of men.

Samantha Shannon

#49. 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

#50. People were thicker than bees, in those narrow streets, and the men were dressed in all the outrageous, outlandish, idolatrous, extravagant, thunder-and-lightning costumes that ever a tailor with the delirium tremens and seven devils could conceive of. There

Mark Twain

#51. Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?'
Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils.

Cassandra Clare

#52. There is no less wickedness potentially in the tamest sinner on earth, than in the devils themselves, and that one day thou, whoever thou art, wilt show to purpose, if God prevent thee not by his renewing grace. Thou

William Gurnall

#53. In fact, one might make the case that New York would not have shone without its legions of contrary devils polishing the lights of goodness with their inexplicable opposition and resistance.

Mark Helprin

#54. I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime

Immortal Technique

#55. Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!

Mike Milbury

#56. I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.

Norman Reedus

#57. It doesn't take a new heart to want the psychological relief of forgiveness, or the removal of God's wrath, or the inheritance of God's world. All these things are understandable without any spiritual change. You don't need to be born again to want these things. The devils want them.

John Piper

#58. She was not in the least afraid of loneliness, because she was not afraid of devils. I think they were afraid of her.

G.K. Chesterton

#59. Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Albert Schweitzer

#60. When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.

Corrie Ten Boom

#61. 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

#62. Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

G.K. Chesterton

#63. I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

Max Von Sydow

#64. Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment. ...

Emma Goldman

#65. There's no devil in the world, we make our own devils

Michael Bassey Johnson

#66. The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness.

Charles Grandison Finney

#67. These women with their talk of capricious personal gods, devils and spirits, yet here he was, the greatest devil any of them could imagine, flying easily under their radar.

Arlene Hunt

#68. Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.

Immortal Technique

#69. Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#70. Jesus gave us the victory with which He overcame Satan, and commissioned us to cast out devils in His Name.

Chris Oyakhilome

#71. The most difficult thing for me is to leave the New Jersey Devils, a great organization that I have a lot of respect for, and our fans that have been great to me.

Ilya Kovalchuk

#72. Men (and women) indeed become strange when seeking gods. As the present work will show, however, they become even stranger when seeking devils.

Robert Anton Wilson

#73. If you want revival, get right with God. If you are not prepared to bring the "last piece," for God's sake stop talking about revival, your talking and praying is but the laughing-stock of devils. It is about time we got into the grips of reality. Are we thirsty?

Duncan Campbell

#74. Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

Fulton J. Sheen

#75. All the devils respect virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#76. Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love ...

Dorothy L. Sayers

#77. An eerie feeling, a notion that devils roam the grounds instead of men. Who knows what anyone will do now that the rules are gone?

Pierce Brown

#78. What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

Catherynne M Valente

#79. The poor devils. They thought a king would make them free.

Terry Pratchett

#80. The blacklist was a time of evil ... no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil ... [Looking] back on this time ... it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.

Dalton Trumbo

#81. Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Tahereh Mafi

#82. He'd have to keep a careful watch on her once the polemen came ashore. These free-spirited Frenchmen, whom he liked well enough, became absolute devils when drunk, their antics so spectacularly sinful they made his most hardened soldiers blush.

Laura Frantz

#83. As a boy, Sebastian had listened to his grandfather's tales of fanged devils that lived in the nearby marshes. Vampiir.

Kresley Cole

#84. Hell is empty, 252 And all the devils are here.

William Shakespeare

#85. Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

William Shakespeare

#86. Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.

Bram Stoker

#87. 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.

Robert Capa

#88. The raising of ghosts or devils was a promise liberally accorded by my favourite authors,

Mary Shelley

#89. Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

Gregory David Roberts

#90. 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

#91. As long as it was just a matter of graft and the lust for power, the British treated the people they robbed as human beings. It was religion that made them treat them like devils

Wendy Doniger

#92. If any preposterous bill were brought forward, for giving poor grubbing devils of authors a right to their own property I should like to say, that I for one would never consent to opposing an insurmountable bar to the diffusion of literature among the people ...

Charles Dickens

#93. My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never give me peace.

Patricia Highsmith

#94. Marlowe's devils wore squibs attached to their tails: evil was like Peter Pan - it carried with it the horrifying and horrible gift of eternal youth.

Graham Greene

#95. AMONG THE DEMONS that taunt a writer before he can open a vein and write in his own blood are the devils that whisper: Are you brave enough to tell the truth?

Francine Prose

#96. For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness

Thomas Merton

#97. You do not overcome the old teaching through doing less, but through doing more. Every step closer to my soul excites the scornful laughter of my devils, those cowardly ear-whisperers and poison-mixers. It was easy for them to laugh, since I had to do strange things.

C. G. Jung

#98. No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies, the Fountain of Youth, [or] the Philosopher's Stone ...

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Thomas Trask

#100. Dancing in the dark. Does fortune wait or just the black hand of fate, It'll take your God filled soul. Fill it with devils.

Bruce Springsteen