Demonic Quotes - Page 3

• What happened to California will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam, a spirit of lawlessness and anarchy. And a sexual insanity will be unleashed into the Earth.

  Lou Engle

  California, Insanity, Religion

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.today.com. December 17, 2009.

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• The battle against good and evil is raging now! Look at your television programming and movie advertisements presenting the occult…the demonic…the satanic…the practice of witchcraft and sorcery in popular books…the open hostility toward Christianity and the revival of anti-Semitism. The fight is on for the hearts and minds of our children in ours homes, our schools, our universities, and our society.

  John Hagee

  Children, Book, Home

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• We're importing Hinduism into America. The whole thought of your karma, of meditation, of the fact that there's no end of life and there's this endless wheel of life, this is all Hinduism. Chanting too. Many of those chants are to Hindu Gods — Vishnu, Hare Krishna. The origin of it is all demonic. We can't let that stuff come into America. We've got the best defense, if you will — a good offense.

  Pat Robertson

  Karma, America, Meditation

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• I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

  Lauryn Hill

  Insecurity, Black, Western Culture

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The 'religious spirit,' it's demonic, and it attempts to substitute a demonic power or a fleshly power for the power of the Holy Spirit. And the 'religious spirit' is more concerned with what we look like than what we really are.

  Jack Deere

  Religious, Looks, Spirit

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• We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of making our lives sensible. Trying to live without stories can make us crazy. They help us recognize what we believe to be most valuable in the world, and help us identify what we hold demonic.

  William Kittredge

  Crazy, Believe, Trying

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• Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Letting Go, Powerful

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• Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see the lack of self-dignity as the core of the problem will prove to be too shallow.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Thinking, Self, Evil

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• Riley. How bad has it been?" "Just fabulous. The demonic kitten really made my night.

  Jana Oliver

  Night, Fabulous, Kitten

  Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.95, Pan Macmillan

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• I have in this War a burning private grudge — which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, Inspiration, Light

  Letter to his son Michael Tolkien on June 09, 1941. "The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien", 1981.

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• All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Children, World, Causes

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• Demonic activity levels? Do they have a device that measures whether the demons inside the house are doing power yoga?

  Cassandra Clare

  Yoga, House, Levels

  "City of Bones". Book by Cassandra Clare, March 27, 2007.

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• I've got to think that that was unethical," Joshua said. "Josh, faking demonic possession is like a mustard seed." "How is it like a mustard seed?" "You don't know, do you? Doesn't seem at all like a mustard seed, does it? Now you see how we all feel when you liken things unto a mustard seed? Huh?

  Christopher Moore

  Thinking, Doe, Mustard Seed

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• Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Wish, Trying, Too Much

  Pope Benedict XVI (2004). “Truth and Tolerance: Christian Belief and World Religions”, p.116, Ignatius Press

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• Every institution is inherently demonic.

  Paul Tillich

  Institutions

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• Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and—

  Richelle Mead

  Clever, Hands, Truth Is

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.191, Zebra Books

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• We pray against the domestic enemies of the Constitution, against this demon of tyranny who is using the White House occupant. That demonic spirit is oppressing us.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  White, House, Enemy

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• Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed. First, those people have the ability to see hidden sacred objects, which they always want removed. Second, they have an extraordinary physical strength. And third, they show an aversion to the sacred

  Gerard Verschuuren

  People, Evil, Three

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• The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

  Norman O. Brown

  Religious, Money, Heirs

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.240, Wesleyan University Press

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• Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning to suspect that the idols are vain, but their demonic influence upon our lives is not thereby allayed. For it is one thing to entertain critical doubts regarding the god of this world, and another thing to perceive the dunamis, the meaning and might of the living God who is building a new world.

  Karl Barth

  Idols, Doubt, World

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• It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Animal, Quality, Elements

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• Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Drinking, Compassion, Vices

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• We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Hate, Health, Anxiety

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• I can very well say without hesitation that all those who have political power, even if they use it well have acquired it by demonic mediation and even if they are not conscious of it, they are worshippers of diabolos.

  Jacques Ellul

  Political, Use, Politics

  "Si tu es le Fils de Dieu" by Jacques Ellul, (p. 76), 1991.

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• In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents, and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware

  Paul Tillich

  Honesty, Humble, Thoughtful

  Paul Tillich (2012). “Systematic Theology”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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