Devil Quotes
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Guard thee from the power of evil; Who cannot trust, vows to the devil.
Margaret Fuller
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I always write like the devil's behind me with a whip. I'm going to write because I like it. Then I'm going to write another.
Joe R. Lansdale
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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
Orson Scott Card
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If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
Patrick Ness
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Protection against the influence of the devil comes through the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the good news that Jesus Christ has made a perfect Atonement for mankind.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
Lydia M. Child
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
Anne Baxter
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Sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know.
Al Pacino
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The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.
El DeBarge DeBarge
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Even a most evil man is better than the devil!
Jan Hus
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However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.
Emil Cioran
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That’s one thing about these religious boys-they reckon that if they are on God’s side, then the enemy must be on the devil’s, and so they have no qualms about giving it to ’em hot and strong.
Brian Aldiss
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Scarcely had I entered the sitting-room when I found ... what appeared at first sight to be the Devil, A closer scrutiny informed me that it was Gussie Fink-Nottle, dressed as Mephistopheles.
P. G. Wodehouse
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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.
Ed Schultz
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To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
Jose Bergamin
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Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.
Austin Clarke
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Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.
John Shelby Spong
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'Prophet!' said I, 'thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!'
Edgar Allan Poe
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But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to be only one thing or another, to be a saint or a sinner. It recognizes that you can be true to yourself and still have unexpected dimensions and opposing ideas. Having a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is the most common thing in the world. The real bullshit is when you act like you don't have contradictions inside you, that you're so dull and unimaginative that your mind never changes or wanders into strange, unexpected places.
Jay-Z
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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.
Boris Johnson
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Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
Oswald Chambers
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I only eat organic. I love salads and believe food is our best medicine. My son is so brainwashed, he thinks McDonald's is the devil.
Deborra-Lee Furness
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People need to understand; I may have been very innocent. Didn't understand the devil. Didn't understand any of that. You can only push a child so far. You have laws; number one. And number two; I had been doing this so long, I could say now that I don't want to do something. But after a certain while, they knew when they had pushed their luck with me, and that it was time to, you know, maybe back off.
Linda Blair