Devil Quotes - Page 37

• First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be Gods. "Be and make." Let this be our motto. Say not man is a sinner. Tell him that he is a God. Even if there were a devil, it would be our duty to remember God always, and not the devil.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Helping Others, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1746, Manonmani Publishers

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• Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• As God illumines all people equally with the light of the sun, so do those who desire to imitate God let shine an equal ray of love on all people. For wherever love disappears, hatred immediately appears in its place. And if God is love, then hatred is the devil. Therefore as one who has love has God within himself, so he who has hatred within himself nurtures the devil within himself.

  Saint Basil

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Our world is guided by two principles and sources: God and the devil. All that is better in the world of men has its source in God, and all that is bad has the devil as its principle and source. In the final account, all good comes from God, and all evil from the devil.

  Justin Popovic

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The patient endurance of the saints exhausts the evil power that attacks them, since it makes them glory in sufferings undergone for the sake of the truth. It teaches those too much concerned with a life in the flesh to deepen themselves through such sufferings instead of pursuing ease and comfort; and it makes the flesh's natural weakness in the endurance of suffering a foundation for overwhelming spiritual power. For the natural weakness of the saints is precisely such a foundation, since the Lord has made their weakness stronger than the proud devil.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Evil

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• An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Errors, Doe

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• The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

  Thomas Watson

  Godly, Evil, Grace

  Thomas Watson “A Body of Practical Divinity in a Series of Sermons on the Shorter Catechism”, Lulu.com

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• Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

  Thomas Watson

  Father, Wages, Sin

  Thomas Watson “A Body of Practical Divinity in a Series of Sermons on the Shorter Catechism”, Lulu.com

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• ...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time.

  Marilyn Manson

  Fear, Blue, Long

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• Our murmuring is the devil's music.

  Thomas Watson

  Murmuring, Christianity

  Thomas Watson (1829). “The Art of Divine Contentement”, p.112

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• A sour religion is the devil's religion.

  John Wesley

  Sour, Theologian

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• Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

  John Gay

  Wife, Very Good, Highwaymen

  John Gay (1772). “Plays Written by Mr. John Gay: Viz. The Captives, ... The Beggar's Opera. Polly, ... Achilles, ... The Distress'd Wife, ... The Rehearsal at Gotham, ... To which is Prefixed An Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.79

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• Whatever situation you are in, right now, take the authority of Jesus and begin to command that devil out of your life! That cage of infirmity/ setback/ poverty - BE OPENED, in the name of Jesus Christ!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Names, Poverty

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• I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue – it's been happening every day for a long time.

  Marilyn Manson

  Artist, Ideas, America

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• There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

  Joe Hill

  Hero, Guy, Stories

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• If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will.

  Daniel Webster

  Literature, Pages, Gains

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• Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Humility, Evil

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.399

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• Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.

  Al-Ghazali

  Errors, Evil, Quran

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• A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

  John Webster

  Fashion, Blow, Political

  1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 3, sc.2.

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• Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Space, Soul, Lust

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• It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome pulpit. But where is my zeal if I do not trample all these underfoot in order to save one more soul?

  John Wesley

  Order, Soul, Religion

  John Wesley (1871). “Wesley his own biographer, being illustrations of his character, labours, and achievements, from his own journals and letters [ed.] with an intr. by G.S. Rowe”, p.158

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• As no good is done, or spoken, or thought by any man without the assistance of God, working in and with those that believe in him, so there is no evil done, or spoken, or thought without the assistance of the devil, who worketh with strong though secret power in the children of unbelief. All the works of our evil nature are the work of the devil.

  John Wesley

  Strong, Children, Believe

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• When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Running, Men, Years

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

  Francis Thompson

  Howl, Know How, Knows

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