Devil Quotes
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It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.
J. C. Ryle
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They remove to York, that cold and godless place, where not even the devil could get warm.
Colin Falconer -
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us;The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us,We bargain for the graves we lie in;At the Devil's booth are all things soldEach ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.
James Russell Lowell -
The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.
Vance Havner -
Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.
Albertus Magnus -
Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us.
William Booth -
I say, Libanus, what a poor devil a chap in love is!
Plautus
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God created the world and then created the devil, to blame for his mistakes.
Simon Le Bon Duran Duran -
I was born with the devil in me,' Holmes wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.
Erik Larson -
In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.
R. C. Sproul, Jr. -
God gives us life, but the world’s landlord is the devil….
Carlo D'Este -
If not reason, then the devil.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
And I flirted with the devil and he dealt me a card. He told me that you will never win. So I sold my soul to the devil. I never thought it could be this bad. And I got the devil takin' me away
Hank Williams III
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Kiss an angel good morning and love her like the devil when you get back home.
Ashley Purdy -
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.
Bill Vaughan -
I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.
C. S. Lewis -
Yes, yes; you’ve read thousands of books but you’ve never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires.
Bulleh Shah -
If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.
Georges Bidault
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I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago that you are too fat." "The devil!" Berkley said indignantly, sitting up; and Maximus snorted in amusement at having provoked him.
Naomi Novik -
Tell the devil to go to hell... that's where he belongs.
Mark Hart Crowded House -
The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.
Billy Sunday -
There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.
William Gurnall