Devil Quotes - Page 14

• We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, "Oh, the world is a devil's world." We curse others and say, "What infatuated fools!" But why should we be in such a world, if we really are so good? If this is a devil's world, we must be devils also; why else should we be here? "Oh, the people of the world are so selfish!" True enough; but why should we be found in that company, if we be better? Just think of that.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Selfish, Thinking, People

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.480, Manonmani Publishers

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• I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness. The power that you've heard so much about. The power that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.

  Little Richard

  Believe, People, Darkness

  "The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorised Biography". Book by Charles White, 1984.

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• When I was a kid I think the thing I remembered most about The Exorcist was Linda Blair being possessed by the devil, and how scary that was. It had a lot of parallels for me because the movie was challenging different ideas about faith and it was looking at religion in a darker way. Growing up I was afraid of being possessed by the devil, as an adult I'm afraid of being possessed by the world, by ignorance, and not holding on to my beliefs and what I feel strongly about.

  Marilyn Manson

  Growing Up, Ignorance, Kids

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• She's a devil in disguise, I can tell by looking in her eyes, little Miss Strange.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Eye, Evil, Missing

  Song: Little Miss Strange, Album: Electric Ladyland

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• When I am assailed with heavy tribulations, I rush out among my pigs rather than remain alone by myself. The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away. So the human heart, unless it be occupied with some employment, leaves space for the devil, who wriggles himself in and brings with him a whole host of evil thoughts, temptations, and tribulations, which grind out the heart.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Space, Pigs

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.275

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• If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Angel, Prove, Ifs

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• The Devil's success is contingent upon people's ignorance.

  Benny Hinn

  Ignorance, People

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• When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Running, Believe, Angel

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2004). “Frankenstein”, p.265, Collector's Library

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• I think that having a public career is a bargain with the devil.

  Jessica Simpson

  Thinking, Careers, Bargains

  "The Unnewlywed". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. February 13, 2007.

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• The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Doe, Unbelievers, Sinner

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• The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics

  Seth Godin

  Brave, Needs, Critics

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• Remember, the Devil loves to make us focus on the little that's wrong so we miss the big picture of all that's right.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Focus, Missing, Littles

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Oct 09, 2012

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• The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

  Anthony Trollope

  Honest, Sober, Drink

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1941, e-artnow

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• You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My god! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the devil! Most of mankind has believed in the devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the devil.

  Antonin Scalia

  Jesus, Believe, Mean

  Interview with Jennifer Senior, nymag.com. October 6, 2013.

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• Reverend Ted Haggard's followers still think he's not gay. I'm not kidding. In their world, there are no gay people. There are just straight people who are sinning. They don't want to do it, but the Devil makes them! He targets people like Reverend Ted. That's how it happened. The Devil got hold of Reverend Ted, and Ted said, 'Get thee behind me, Satan! And put it in, gently'.

  Bill Maher

  Gay, Thinking, People

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• It seems to me that the orthodox religions always know more about the Devil than I do and can describe him in more detail, and if I hadn't a nice type of mind I'd begin to wonder what company they keep when the moon rides high in the sky and good witches are doing simple little incantations and asking for spiritual guidance.

  Sybil Leek

  Spiritual, Nice, Moon

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• NO WE ARE NOT DEVIL WORSHIPPERS!!! I've never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships a devil.

  Marilyn Manson

  Worship, Satan, Worshippers

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• A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Solitude

  Sir Thomas Browne (1845). “Religio Medici: to which is Added Hydriotaphia, Or Urn-burial: A Discourse on Sepulchral Urns”, p.137

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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

  Color, Firsts, Painting

  Henry Adams, Thomas Eakins (2005). “Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist”, p.150, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The devil has a Ph.D. in perfect logic.

  Anthony de Mello

  Perfect, Logic

  Anthony De Mello (2010). “Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius”, p.107, Image

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• Satan dreads nothing but prayer. . . . The Church that lost its Christ was full of good works. Activities are multiplied that meditation may be ousted, and organizations are increased that prayer may have no chance. Souls may be lost in good works, as surely as in evil ways. The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Organization, Evil

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• Even time is a concept. In reality we are always in the eternal present. The past is just a memory, the future just an image or thought. All our stories about past and future are only ideas, arising in the moment. Our modern culture is so tyrannized by goals, plans, and improvement schemes that we constantly live for the future. But as Aldous Huxley reminded us in his writings, "An idolatrous religion is one in which time is substituted for eternity...the idea of endless progress is the devil's work, even today demanding human sacrifice on an enormous scale.

  Jack Kornfield

  Memories, Writing, Sacrifice

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• In religion, the ego manifests as the devil. And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else.

  Deepak Chopra

  Smart, Ego, Blame Someone

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• I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Church, Doctrine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.43, 谷月社

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• Poetry is devil's wine.

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Philosophy, Wine

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