The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar’s skirts.
Devil Quotes
As the devil showed great skill in tempting men to perdition, equal skill ought to be shown in saving them. The devil studied the nature of each man, seized upon the traits of his soul, adjusted himself to them and insinuated himself gradually into his victims’s confidence – suggesting splendors to the ambitious, gain to […]
Some (demons) are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds.
No popular film in the last two decades treats the Devil with more seriousness and subtlety (than The Exorcist); indeed, it is stunnig to watch the film today. We all remember the vomiting and head-spinning, but what stands out now in an age of special effects is the dialogue about the nature of good and […]
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.
Why should the Devil have all the good tunes? (Apocryphally attributed to Martin Luther.)
When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it’s not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them.
I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him.
I decided the only explanation is that God and the Devil are very attentive to people at the summit. I don’t know if they stir much in the average man’s daily stew… but do you expect God or the Devil left Lenin and Hitler and Churchill alone? No. They bid for favors and exact revenge. […]
All gods and devils that have ever existed are within us.
