Devil Quotes - Page 27

You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.

"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up."

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.

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.

But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand...

The Lord chose the apostles, that they should be with Him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

God created the world and then created the devil, to blame for his mistakes.

You don’t knock on the devil’s door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!

The devil's name is dullness.

There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him?

The Devil knows your name but calls you by your sin. God knows your sin but calls you by your name.

Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil

I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, Jesus himeself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil.

Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled in the wrong. If we are without the thrill of communion with God, we will try to get thrilled by the devil, or by some concoction of human ingenuity.