Devil Quotes
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Surely I have a Devil who seizes me(also: who comes to me), so if i become angry stay away from me.
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
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In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
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Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.
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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.
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No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.
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The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has.
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When it comes down to the devil in the detail of dealing with the issues... and making real change, Trump, you don't have it. You've never had it.
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I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me 'the Tasmanian Devil' when she was in her teens.
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One day, the Devil decided to go out of business. His tools, therefore, being for sale, were put on display; and Malice, Jealousy, and Pride were soon recognized by most of his prospective customers. There was one worn, tiny wedge-shaped tool bearing the highest price, however, which seemed difficult to identify. "What is that?" someone asked. "I can't quite place it." "Oh that!" Satan answered. "That is Discouragement. It is my most valuable tool. With it I can open many hearts, since so few people know that it belongs to me."
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...You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up – a line which I often thought was a very plausible one – that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.
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But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.
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Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.
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Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
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Tool is not Slayer. I went to art school. I spent three years in the military. There's more to me than throwing devil horns.
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Even a most evil man is better than the devil!
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The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
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I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.
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The Devil is perfectly willing that the church should multiply its organizations and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying...The Devil is not afraid of machinery; he is only afraid of God. And machinery without prayer is machinery without God.
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Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following.
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Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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Rock's always been the devil's music.
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Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
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I forgot that to rely on a train, in Blair's Britain, is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil.
