Devil Quotes
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I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.
C. S. Lewis
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I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Thomas More
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I don't care what's right or wrong, I don't try to understand, Let the devil take tomorrow, Lord tonight I need a friend.
Kris Kristofferson
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If not reason, then the devil.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chance...the Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography.
Ian Fleming
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Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live.
Mother Angelica
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They were devils incarnate.
William Shakespeare
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There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
Boyd K. Packer
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I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.
William Shakespeare
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If you never bump into the devil, it’s because you’re going in the same direction.
Andrew Wommack
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The devil passed through this wonderful country indeed. Thankfully the mercy of God came afterwards.
Sirika Hadi
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Whatever your vocation is, you are destined to reign in life because Jesus is Lord of your life. When you reign in life, you reign over sin, you reign over the powers of darkness, and you reign over depression, over poverty, over every curse, and over every sickness and disease. You REIGN over the devil and all his devices!
Joseph Prince
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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
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When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.
Thomas Eakins
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I think that no matter what you do, whether you rodeo, whether you work in an office, you work in the oilfield or you play music for a living, eventually if you do enough of it, the devil in the back of your head tries to turn it into work. You have to find new ways to make it new and make it exciting to keep that drive there.
Cody Johnson
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
William Hazlitt
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God created the world and then created the devil, to blame for his mistakes.
Simon Le Bon
Duran Duran
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They must needs go whom the Devil drives.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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
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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.
John Milton
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... even the devil works for God.
Judy Collins
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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
