Devil Quotes - Page 35

• I called out to God, but the devil keeps answering.

  Cee Lo Green

  Song: Only You

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• There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!

  Vance Havner

  Book, Two, Thank God

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• The devil's in most people. Not me, mind you, but most.

  Hetty King

  People, Mind

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• Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Casting, Philosopher, Arguing

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a drought, mere human galls stung by the devil once), then all your joy and serenity is reduced to grinning and bearing it. The fact is, you have got to take the world on your shoulders like Atlas, and "put along" with it. You will do this for an idea's sake, and your success will be in proportion to your devotion to ideas. It may make your back ache occasionally, but you will have the satisfaction of hanging it or twirling it to suit yourself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Religious, Mean, Ideas

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

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• To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!
  Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit!
  I dare damnation: To this point I stand,--
  That both the worlds I give to negligence,
  Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Giving, Grace

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.435

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• When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears,
  That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

  Kate Tempest

  Shadow, Tears, Taste

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• If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Angel, Men, Experience

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.220, Graphic Arts Books

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• Let us resolve to talk more to believers about the Bible when we meet them. Alas, the conversation of Christians, when they do meet, is often sadly unprofitable! How many frivolous, and trifling, and uncharitable things are said! Let us bring out the Bible more, and it will help to drive the devil away, and keep our hearts in tune. Oh, that we may all strive so to walk together in this evil world; that Jesus may often draw near, and go with us, as He went with the two disciples journeying to Emmaus!

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  Jay Patrick Green, Sr., John Charles Ryle (2002). “Why Read the Bible Through & How Readest Thou?”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Shakers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.349

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• Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

  Iain Banks

  Details, Good Intentions, Hell

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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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• God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

  William Lawrence Bragg

  Friday, Running, Monday

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• Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools;
  Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools:
  Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell;
  Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Women, Heaven, Tools

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• There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils.

  Margaret of Valois

  Angel, Encounters, Suits

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• Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.

  Thomas Browne

  Lying, Hell

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• We till shadowed days are done,
  We must weep and sing
  Duty's conscious wrong,
  The Devil in the clock

  W. H. Auden

  Work, Done, Clock

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.83, DEBOLS!LLO

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• You claim that any promise which gives you the power, and guarantees you the love of God must be the false promise of the devil.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Giving

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.48, Penguin

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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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• If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself.

  Winston Churchill

  Nice, Politics, Hell

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• The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Women, Tongue, Conversation

  St Catherine of Siena (2007). “Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Men, Every Man For Himself, Every Man

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• We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Heart, Enemy

  Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint John Chrysostom (1983). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church”

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• Where dance is, there is the devil.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Homily on Matt.48.3,

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• God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Father, Fate, Tragedy

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