Devil Quotes - Page 38

• Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

  John Ciardi

  Hate, Men, Agents

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• The devil was the first democrat

  Lord Byron

  Evil, Firsts, Democrat

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• They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think that lying would leave something of a sour taste. So my theory is that when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell.

  Mike Carey

  Lying, Father, Pride

  "Lucifer" by Mike Carey, Issue 10, "Children and Monsters", Part 1, 1999-2006.

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• Don’t be impressed by darkness. Jesus didn’t do the opposite of whatever the devil did. He did what He saw the Father doing… The moment I have a lesser sense of Him and a greater sense of the problem, I will live in reaction to the problem.

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Father, Opposites

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• A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

  Bill Johnson

  Church, Counterfeit, Powerless

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• The devil considers all misplaced trust as devil worship, for he hides himself in its shadows.

  Bill Johnson

  Shadow, Worship, Misplaced

  Bill Johnson (2014). “Experience the Impossible: Simple Ways to Unleash Heaven's Power on Earth”, p.75, Chosen Books

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• Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!

  Bill Johnson

  Refusal, Finished

  Bill Johnson (2012). “Hosting the Presence: Unveiling Heaven's Agenda”, p.77, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)

  John Piper

  Promise, Favors, Worship

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• Jesus did not live in reaction to the devil. He lived in response to the Father.

  Bill Johnson

  Jesus, Father, Reactions

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• What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ".

  Paul Goodman

  Writing, Thinking, Doe

  Paul Goodman (1966). “Five years”

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• O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

  Abigail Adams

  Eye, Heart, Wicked

  Abigail Adams (2016). “Abigail Adams: Letters”, p.748, Library of America

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• But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

  Lord Byron

  Years, Evil, Balance

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.

  Jeremy Taylor

  God, Eye, Feet

  Jeremy Taylor (1954). “The House of Understanding: Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Taylor by Margaret Gest”

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• Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house? Oh, the curse'  d devil, Which doth present us with all other sins Thrice-candied o'er.

  John Webster

  Atheist, House, Soul

  1612 The White Devil, act 5, sc.6.

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• The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.

  Fritz Leiber

  Wonder, Wealth, Fling

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.341, Open Road Media

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• The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.

  Eric Hoffer

  Subconscious, Cunning, Cellars

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an official visit. It caused an uproar - Lula's visiting the devil!

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Moving, Leader, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play. The zany was progenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him. In the zany we see an example of creation; in the humorist, of transmission. Another excellent specimen of the modern zany is the curate, who apes the rector, who apes the bishop, who apes the archbishop, who apes the devil.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Character, Italian, Play

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.240, 谷月社

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• For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.

  Martin Luther

  Character, Goes On, Earth

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• Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more people to hear them. But if I have to sell my soul to the devil to do it, I won't.

  Pat Benatar

  Nice, People, Soul

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

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• It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Women, Pretty Woman

  Victor Hugo, John Manson (2001). “The Alps and Pyrenees”, p.94, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

  St. Jerome

  Busy, Worthwhile

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• Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Editors, Pay, Newspapers

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• Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

  Alexander Pope

  Hair, Amber, Dirt

  'An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot' (1735) l. 169

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• Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wall, Resistance, Satan

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