Devil Quotes - Page 28

I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. ... When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. ... Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world.

...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good and is in control of every individual thing that happens, every event, but that unfortunately the devil is in control of the timing.

Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.

Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!

You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand into.

Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

Complaint is a prayer to the devil.

God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.

When the devil drives, needs must.

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.

We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.

Of a young hermit, an old devil. [Fr., De jeune hermite, vieil diable.]