Devil Quotes - Page 19

• God doesn't send His children to Hell either. It's just the Devil's children that God sends to Hell. Why should God look after the Devil's children.

  John R. Rice

  Children, Looks, Hell

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• The devil only exists because of your belief in him; same goes for that other guy.

  Sage Francis

  Guy, Other Guys, Belief

  Song: Sun vs. Moon, 2005

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• Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

  Victoria Moran

  Long, Confusing, Body

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• 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.

  Jose Rizal

  Age, Today, Blame

  Letter to Fr. Pastells, November 11, 1892.

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• Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

  Criss Jami

  Feelings, World, Irony

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.66, Criss Jami

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• Considering the notion that the spiritual battlefield is infinitely greater than the physical, perhaps God is more willing to bless with a sort of divine ecstasy those who see the devil as the enemy rather than those who see other people as the enemies.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, People, Enemy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.73, Criss Jami

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• A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.

  Criss Jami

  Children, Adults, Rebel

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.71, Criss Jami

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• Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magesterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nautre's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life.

  Lawrence Millman

  Eye, Sea, Wings

  Lawrence Millman, Paul Theroux (2000). “Last Places: A Journey in the North”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.

  Hermann Hesse

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, London, Hell

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• I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Men, Long

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Firsts, Failing

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.

  Coco Chanel

  Children, Real, Lovers

  "Paris, Paris : Journey Into the City of Light‎". Book by David Downie, p. 93, 2005.

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• Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart language which we cannot choose but love? And what has been their reward? They have sent down their name to be the by-word of all after ages; the worst reproach of the worst men a name convertible with atheism and devil-worship.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Men, Names

  James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch (1849). “Fraser's Magazine”, p.546

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• But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

  John Dryden

  Mean, Hands, Pimp

  1681 Absalom and Achitophel, pt.1, l.79-81.

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

  John Dryden

  Women, Hunting, Design

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.271

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• Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed.

  James Ellis

  Way, Leisure, Moments

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• Sometimes the devil tempts me to believe in God.

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Temptation, Atheism

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• Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Brother, Doubt, Despair

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1907). “Watchwords”

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• You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Evil, Soul, Earth

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.209, Delphi Classics

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• If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Angel, Men, Savages

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.288

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• The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's 'The Devils' no less than the art of Giotto or the 'Passions' of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of man and woman to the existence of the gods or of God.

  George Steiner

  Art, Kings, Passion

  "Real Presences". Book by George Steiner, 1986.

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• I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment.

  Ann Coulter

  Thinking, Trials, Lawyer

  "Ann Coulter Reacts After John Edwads Calls Her a "She-Devil". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. August 23, 2007.

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• The most extraordinary of all the things called miracles, related in the New Testament, is that of the devil flying away with Jesus Christ, and carrying him to the top of a high mountain; and to the top of the highest pinnacle of the temple, and showing him and promising to him all the kingdoms of the world . How happened it that he did not discover America? or is it only with kingdoms that his sooty highness has any interest.

  Thomas Paine

  Jesus, America, Miracle

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.58

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• We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dog, Art, Horse

  'The Conundrum of the Workshops' (1892)

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