Devil Quotes - Page 32

• Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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• When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess thyself with true fear; when the devil brings thee oil, bring thou vinegar. The way to be safe is never to be secure.

  Francis Quarles

  Oil, Temptation, Way

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.94

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• Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in.

  John Selden

  Casting, Firsts, Casts

  John Selden, Samuel Weller Singer, Edward FitzGerald (1860). “Table Talk: With a Biographical Pref. and Notes”, p.144

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• You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.

  Doug Graham

  Book, Soul, Ignorant

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• It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Perseverance, Sin, Humans

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• Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Clothes, May, Sides

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• I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

  Rumer Godden

  Believe, Mets, Knows

  Rumer Godden (1979). “Five For Sorrow, Ten For Joy”

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• There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker. To praise the devil is second nature. To praise God is an education.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Tolerance, World, Praise

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• The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me?

  Storm Jameson

  Brother, Stupid, Men

  Storm Jameson (1956). “The Intruder”, London Macmillan 1956.

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• The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Passion, Looks, Noble

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2006). “The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement: On Dante and Other Writers”, p.231, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• [On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Race, Want, Strange

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• What's devil to some is good to some others.

  Elizabeth Madox Roberts

  Evil, Good And Evil

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• an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

  Fanny Burney

  Age, Old Woman, Persons

  Fanny Burney (1782). “Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress”, p.137

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• although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.

  Amy Sedaris

  Teenager, Hands, Said

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• Satan has many helpers.

  Ellen G. White

  Satan, Helpers

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated”, p.29, Lulu Press, Inc

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• the flip side of success is fear. And fear is the devil. And success is the devil's dope.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Success, Dope, Flip

  Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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• Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.

  Owen Feltham

  Hope, Men, Yield

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• Use God's mighty weapons, not those made by men, to knock down the devil's strongholds.

  Chuck Norris

  Men, Use, Weapons

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• I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.

  Helen Cresswell

  Idle, Idleness

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• Faith from, its essential nature implies the fallen state of man, while it recognizes the principles of the covenant of grace. It is itself the condition of that covenant. It is a grace which is alike distinguished from the love of angels and the faith of devils. It is peculiar to the returning sinner. None but a lost sinner needs it; none but a humbled sinner relishes it.

  Gardiner Spring

  Angel, Men, Grace

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 233. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.

  Dylan Thomas

  Girl, Eye, Smoking

  Song: If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love

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• The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

  Horace Mann

  Ambition, Men, Rewards

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• [On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they understand when we seem less than perfect. And try to understand, ourselves, when they're not all we'd like them to be.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Perfect, Parent, Trying

  Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Children, Humor

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.325

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• The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

  J. C. Ryle

  More Knowledge

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of John”, p.281, Editora Dracaena

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