The Devil Quotes

If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?

When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Of course the Devil is laughing at folks for believing it [Big Bang, etc.]. But hey, it works, it sends 'em to Hell, so he'll use it.

Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

The devil is compromise.

If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

They will attach you in the morning and they will come booming - skirmishers three deep. You will have to fight like the devil until supports arrive.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

Through love the devil becomes an angel. Through love stones become soft as butter. Through love grief is like delight. Through love demons become the servants of God.

In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

There's the devil to pay.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

When you don't give money, it shows that you have the devil's nature.

God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

The higher the levels, the higher the devils.

The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!

Every step you make in Jesus Christ enrages the devil.

Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

Diamanda Galás, the avant-weird performance artist... 'The devil's wife,' someone calls her. Faith No More loves Diamanda Galás.

The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.

The devil abhors light and truth because these remove the ground of his working.

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.