Devil famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To attain our aim we should stop at nothing even if we must join forces with the devil.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Jesus did not bathe this planet with his blood to have you serve the world, the flesh, and the devil. He died to make you holy. You are not your own. First Corinthians 6:20 says 'For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.'
-- Adrian Rogers -
The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.
-- Adrian Rogers -
Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder.
-- Adrian Rogers -
The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.
-- Adrian Rogers -
To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
The devil loves it when we say we believe then prioritize everything in our lives ahead of God.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.
-- Aime Cesaire -
For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.
-- Aino Kallas -
sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know
-- Al Pacino -
Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.
-- Alain-Rene Lesage -
Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.
-- Alan Chadwick -
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.
-- Albert Speer -
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
-- Aleister Crowley -
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 -
Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
-- Alexander Pope -
There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
-- Alexander Pope -
You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait.
-- Ambrose -
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.
-- Amy Sedaris -
something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil...
-- Ana Castillo -
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
-- Anatole France -
God made Cabernet Sauvignon, whereas the Devil made Pinot Noir.
-- Andre Tchelistcheff -
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
-- Andre Weil -
The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
-- Andrea Gibson -
If you never bump into the devil, it’s because you’re going in the same direction.
-- Andrew Wommack -
The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he’s had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.
-- Andrew Wommack -
Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.
-- Angela Merici -
I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment.
-- Ann Coulter -
You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.
-- Ann Rinaldi -
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
-- Anne Baxter -
Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!
-- Anne Rice -
I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.
-- Anne Rice -
You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.
-- Anne Rice -
Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.
-- Anne Rice -
A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.
-- Anne Rice -
Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile
-- Anne Rice -
You don't believe in God, Rachel. You don't believe in goodness or love or mercy, do you?" "I haven't seen enough to form an opinion." "But you believe in the devil?" "When I'm sitting in a car with him, yes," she said.
-- Anne Stuart -
Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell.
-- Anthony -
Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.
-- Anya Seton -
I wanted to go back on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I did it. One of my favorite shows is 'Hawaii Five-0.' I went on, guest starred. I wanted to be in a film, did 'Tasmanian Devils' in Vancouver. Wanted to host a show, boom, did it.
-- Apolo Ohno -
Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.
-- Ariana Franklin -
Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school The devil take the hindmost, O!
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.
-- Arthur Miller -
"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up."
-- Arthur Porges -
Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
Everyone gets the devil he deserves.
-- Arturo Pérez-Reverte -
Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.
-- Arturo Pérez-Reverte -
In ancient times before the divine sojourn of the Savior took place, even to the saints death was terrible; all wept for the dead as though they perished. But now that the Savior has raised his body, death is no longer terrible; for all who believe in Christ trample on it as it were nothing and choose rather to die than deny their faith in Christ. And that devil that once maliciously exulted in death, now that its pains were loosed, remained the only one truly dead.
-- Athanasius of Alexandria -
Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
See God gave us the talent, but the devil make us famous.
-- Barry Sanders -
If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
-- Ben Stein -
The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
We are on God's side. This is not a war between Arabs and Jews. It's a war between God and the devil.
-- Benny Hinn -
Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.
-- Benny Hinn -
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I’m rollin’ with Satan, not Jesus Christ. I’m the only son of the devil.
-- Big L -
Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil
-- Bill Johnson -
The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.
-- Bill Vaughan -
The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own
-- Billy Joe Shaver -
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
-- Billy Sunday -
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
-- Billy Sunday -
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
-- Billy Sunday -
The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.
-- Billy Sunday -
The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.
-- Billy Sunday -
If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch
-- Billy Sunday -
I’m half crazy but I know the Devil real. I should know, I signed a record deal.
-- Bishop Lamont -
You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody...
-- Bob Dylan -
The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.
-- Bob Jones, Sr. -
There is also an age-old excuse: 'The devil made me do it.' Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
-- Boyd K. Packer -
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
-- Branch Rickey -
I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.
-- Brandon Sanderson -
The devil doesn't care how big your church is - he cares how influential it is.
-- Brian Houston -
And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.
-- Brom -
I never knew that I would see the day that I would meet the devil himself.
-- Busta Rhymes -
Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
-- C. J. Cherryh -
The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.
-- Camille Claudel -
The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
-- Carlos Santana -
Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.
-- Carolyn Wells
