Devil Quotes - Page 34

• Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

  J. C. Ryle

  Night, Men, Roots

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Men, Helping

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.4

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• Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them.

  John Shelby Spong

  Moon, Thinking, People

  "Bishop John Shelby Spong Ahead Of His Time With Church Reforms" by David Gibson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2013.

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• The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.

  Andrea Gibson

  Done, World, Damage

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.50, SCB Distributors

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• A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

  Benjamin Rush

  Simple, Government, Democracy

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• I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chance...the Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography.

  Ian Fleming

  Sorry, Team, Writing

  "Casino Royale". Book by Ian Fleming, ch. 20: The Nature Of Evil, 1953.

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• One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain. ... It is the devil's money going back to hell.

  Matilde Serao

  Winning, Gambling, Challenges

  Matilde Serao (2017). “The Land of Cockayne (Matilde Serao) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.304, epubli

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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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• And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!

  Bram Stoker

  Children, Home, Land

  Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.54, Prestwick House Inc

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• The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.

  Billy Sunday

  Men, Rope, Vote

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim.

  Carlos Eire

  Korea, Soul, Everyday

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• A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.

  Earl Hamner, Jr.

  Dog, Eye, Men

  "The Twilight Zone. The Hunt" Season 3, Episode 19, January 26, 1962.

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• I'm a human, too. I'm not an angel. I'm a devil.

  Nichkhun

  Angel, Humans

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• Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.

  Mary MacLane

  Answers

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.64, Petrarca Press

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• I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Stories, Good Story, Ifs

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• I only eat organic. I love salads and believe food is our best medicine. My son is so brainwashed, he thinks McDonald's is the devil.

  Deborra-Lee Furness

  Believe, Son, Thinking

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

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• God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true that spirits are very likely to lead men to the Devil. Too intimate acquaintance with whisky toddy overnight is often followed by the delirium tremens and blue-devils on the morrow. We advise our readers to eschew alike spirituous and spiritual mixtures. They interfere sadly with sober thinking, and play the Devil with your brains.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Spiritual, Jesus, Men

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• Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.

  St. Jerome

  Scary, Scorpions, Dangerous

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• I don't believe in God. I believe gods and devils are within us. It's our own battle. Our life's battle is to appeal to the gods within us, and to fight the devils within us.

  Eddie Izzard

  Believe, Fighting, Battle

  "Eddie Izzard Talks TREASURE ISLAND, Possibility of a Sequel, and MUNSTERS Reboot MOCKINGBIRD LANE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 1, 2012.

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• When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  God, Father, Philosophy

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• Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Wine, Epic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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• Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Black, Doubt

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Miscellanies”, p.135

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• He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

  Tryon Edwards

  Prejudice, Possessed

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.220

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• Suddenly I'm not half the girl
  I used to be.
  There's a shadow hanging over me . . .
  From me to you out of my electric devil.

  Anne Sexton

  Girl, Fear, Shadow

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.260, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.

  David Hume

  Death, Lying, Philosophy

  David Hume, John Charles Addison Gaskin (1998). “Dialogues and Natural History of Religion”, p.127, Oxford University Press, USA

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