Top 62 When The Devil Comes Quotes
#1. As everybody in the Andes knows, when the devil comes to work his evil on earth he sometimes takes the shape of a limping gringo stranger. And
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#2. When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say Jesus, it's for you.
Robin Jones Gunn
#3. When the devil comes, he comes on angel's wings.
Don Winslow
#4. We should realize that there are three sources for our thoughts - God, the devil, and ourselves.
John Cassian
#5. If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more clever device.
Simone Weil
#6. [My] rheumatism has come in again"
Ivan, cynically, "The devil have rheumatism!"
"Why not, if I sometimes put on fleshly form? I put on fleshly form and I take the consequences. Satan sum et nihil humanum a me alienum puto."*
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#7. 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
#8. When the whole point was that the Devil hardly ever made anyone do anything. He didn't have to.
Terry Pratchett
#9. The town cares for devil's work no more than it cares for God's or man's. It knew darkness. And darkness was enough.
Stephen King
#10. 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
#12. most people interpret silence as rejection!
Ali Vali
#14. I still got a few more dances with the devil.
Tim McGraw
#15. 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
#16. A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
William Hazlitt
#17. 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
#18. I've always loved being gay. Sure, Kenya was not exactly Queer Nation but my sexuality gave me joy. I was young, not so dumb and full of cum! There was no place for me in heaven but I was content munching devil's pie here on earth.
Diriye Osman
#19. Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.
Pope Francis
#20. To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: Behold a God or a guardian angel!
John Owen
#21. You fight against that devil for love as long as you may; when the time comes, not all the angels in heaven shall save him!
Emily Bronte
#22. [The Devil] Mephistopheles, when he comes to Faust, testifies of himself that he desires evil, yet does only good. Well, let him do as he likes, it's quite the opposite with me. I am perhaps the only man in all of nature who loves the truth and sincerely desires good.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#23. When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.
Marianne Williamson
#24. I see that you're observant. You point out that I'm a Goth, I don't talk, and I have a twisted mind when it comes to writing. But, you guessed wrong when you said that I'm a devil worshiper. And I responded to you with a punch in the nose and said,"Don't fucking judge a book by it's cover!
Onyx
#25. My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes.
Penelope Cruz
#26. Although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.
Amy Sedaris
#28. When it comes to creating compelling fiction, the devil may be in the details, but it is your imagination that ultimately allows your work to spread its wings and take flight. And fly it must. Only by soaring above the clouds of doubt can one truly achieve a suspension of disbelief
Max Hawthorne
#29. The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened.
Swami Vivekananda
#30. They were very sweet words. Words that soothed the gaping hurt in her soul. But the devil was good when it comes to dealing with damaged souls.
Stylo Fantome
#31. When he comes to the door
he always looks mocking and half-way angry.
You can see he has sympathy for nothing.
It's written on his forehead
that he can love no one.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#32. 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.
Charles Dickens
#33. The flesh on the nape of my neck did the crawly thing that it does so well. Some people say this is God's warning that the devil is near, but I've noticed I also experience it when someone serves me Brussels sprouts.
Dean Koontz
#34. Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.
Angela Carter
#35. 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
#37. An angel fighting through the darkness or a devil breaking into the light?
K. Bromberg
#38. 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
#39. Over-confidence is the way to give your soul to the devil an inch at a time.
Joe R. Lansdale
#40. There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.
Ezra Taft Benson
#41. If you want to give the devil a message, write it on the bottom of your shoes.
Andrew Wommack
#42. Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.
Victoria Moran
#43. Amy said, "So, you're making a flamethrower?"
"Amy, we gotta be prepared. We don't know what we'll find in that place, but for all we know it could be the Devil himself."
"David, what possible good is that thing gonna do?"
"Oh, no, you didn't hear me. I said it's a flamethrower." Girls.
David Wong
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?
Umberto Eco
#49. 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.
Pope John Paul II
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.
Martin Luther
#54. Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devil must exist as well, because we cannot prove it
Yoko Ogawa
#55. Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God ... It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#56. 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
#57. We are not the Church in failure, running out the back door while the devil kicks in the front door. We are the Church of Luke 10:19 that has authority over all the power of the enemy.
Harold R. Eberle
#58. Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print
Matthew Pearl
#59. 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
#60. Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
Ambrose Bierce
#61. We are all the same instincts
Good and Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more and nothing less.
Paulo Coelho
