Devil Quotes - Page 16

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

If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will.

Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.

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

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

We are the living devils.

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

God seeks comrades and claims love, The devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

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

This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.

For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

The most important factor in abandoning our thoughts is to look in the Bible and see what God says about a matter. Then we must determine to act on His Word rather than on our own thoughts or those the devil may whisper into our minds.

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

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

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

All accusation is of the devil, no matter where it comes from. It is just as dangerous to accuse others as it is to give the accuser room in your own life. The accuser gives no hope. God does not accuse us, but He does give us promptings that bring light and hope.

Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.

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.

Rock's always been the devil's music.

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.

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