Quotes with devil

  • So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
  • And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
  • Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
  • People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
  • It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
  • The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?
  • I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing - a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
  • I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
  • But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
  • Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
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  • Lord George Byron History is the devil's scripture.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, ''You Only Live Once.''
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • A. W. Tozer The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • William Hazlitt A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
    Round table
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Billy Sunday A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Jacob Braude Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
    Jacob Braude
     
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  • Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ''It's pretty, but is it Art?''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Anthony Trollope But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Martin Luther Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
    Martin Luther
     
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  • C. J. Cherryh Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Doubt is Devil-born.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • C. S. Lewis Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Robert Burton Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.
    The Anatomy of Melancholy Part III, sect. 1,3
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Robert Burton Every man for himself, the devil for all.
    The Anatomy of Melancholy
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Eric Butterworth Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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