Quotes with devil

Quotes 61 till 80 of 99.

• That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne, second, the theatre.

  Belle Livingstone
   
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• The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.

  Bob Marley
  Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

  The merchant of Venice (1597)

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

  Francis Thompson
  English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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• The devil has his elect.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

  Albert Einstein
  German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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• The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

  Sir Roger L'Estrange
  English journalist (1616 - 1702)
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• The devil is God's ape!

  Martin Luther
   
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• The devil is the author of confusion.

  Robert Burton
  English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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• The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

  Vance Havner
  American writer
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• The devil's most devilish when respectable.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  English poet (1806 - 1861)
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• The devil's name is dullness.
  

  Robert E. Lee
  American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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• The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
  

  Stephen King
  American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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• The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.

  William Blake
  English poet (1757 - 1827)
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• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  A Year with C. S. Lewis

  C. S. Lewis
  Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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• 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?

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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• There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.

  Billy Graham
  American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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• There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

  Helen Rowland
  American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• respectable
• middle-aged
• campaigning
• peacemakers
• understand
• preparing

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