Devil Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!

  Bootsy Collins

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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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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• 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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• One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate - and remain forever scatheless.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Hate, Giving, Forever

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Complete Plays: 1932-1943”

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• Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles, deeds of the Devil, and consider it very probable that things of this sort could occur in everything anywhere.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  People, Miracle, Deeds

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• Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.

  Thomas Szasz

  Aggression, Theologian, Seeing

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.172, Syracuse University Press

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• In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils. There is no hope for the world unless power can be tamed, and brought into the service, not of this or that group of fanatical tyrants, but of the whole human race, white and yellow and black, fascist and communist and democrat; for science has made it inevitable that all must live or all must die.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Yellow, White

  "Power: A New Social Analysis". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers, 1938.

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• The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Evil, Ease

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.60

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• Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.

  Mary McCarthy

  Monsters, Doe, Calling

  "The writing on the wall: and Other Literary Essays (The Hue and Cry)". Book by Mary McCarthy, 1970.

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• The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Angel, Chance, Form

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “The Last Temptation of Christ”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fenFrom man protected - where each form assumesGigantic stature and intention, loomsFrom wind-moved, twilight-woven histories:For them each flower teems with mysteries.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Children, Flower, Twilight

  Osbert Sitwell (1931). “The collected satires and poems of Osbert Sitwell”

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• Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.

  Zachary Schomburg

  Beautiful, Baby, Reading

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• Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.

  Frank Herbert

  Evil, Answers, Might

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.114, Penguin

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• The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.

  Austin O'Malley

  Not Afraid, Altars

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• 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.

  Austin O'Malley

  Shoes, Would Be, Poor

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• Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school The devil take the hindmost, O!

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  School, Stills

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1863). “Poems”, p.55

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