Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.
The Devil, of course, must have been or must be a very charming person.
It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.
There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.
Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French… and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
Patience doesn’t mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that’s unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
There’s so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who’s married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.
Sonya Deville was originally supposed to be NJ Deville to help me keep my MMA nickname of ‘The Jersey Devil’ after debating back and forth we agreed on Sonya Deville.
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
I don’t really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.
Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won’t help you.
Oysters are the devil’s food. Not a fan!
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
I fought Miguel Cotto in Madison Square Garden on the eve of the Puerto Rican Day parade – it was like fighting the devil in Hell.
The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.
Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
I believe in the Devil. I believe there’s a God, too. I met God at church – the Catholic Church.
The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me ‘the Tasmanian Devil’ when she was in her teens.
That’s why I called my record Devil Without a Cause – I’m a white boy who’s so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.
Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.
Probably the worst time in a person’s life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it’s been a pretty good day.
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
‘Dust Devil,’ I’ve never really seen with an American audience, so I’m looking forward to that experience.
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.
Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.
Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.
When a person’s religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn’t that be a subject for discussion and debate?
I think that having a public career is a bargain with the devil.
‘Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
God’s love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.
What I’m like with lack of sleep is that I let the devil in, so if I’m tired the slightest thing will put me into a bad place.
I was scared of the devil starting around age nine. Before that, I was gathering every family member in the living room, slipping a shirt over my robe so the bottom hung like a skirt and performing Gloria Estefan songs with feverish intensity.
The New Testament Scriptures are full of references to the malice of the devil, but we generally overlook them. I think this is because our idea of salvation is that Christ died on the cross to pay His Father the debt for our sins.
The devil reigns in me more than in any man I can think of.
Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.
The soul shall mightily rule in all hidden secrets: but it must not let in the devil.
When I was signed to Quincy Jones before I went independent, he told me to rap what you know, and people will forever feel you. And I stuck to that, no matter how many people called me a devil worshiper, no matter how many people call me a cult leader. I stuck with rapping about what I know.
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
I only eat organic. I love salads and believe food is our best medicine. My son is so brainwashed, he thinks McDonald’s is the devil.
The press don’t like to say nice things because nice is boring. It’s much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we’re responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.
Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I’m doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.
God is working, and obviously, the devil is trying to work, too, but it will not happen.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.
And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don’t see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.
People versed in politics need not be told that the devil is in the detail, and tough solutions implying the use of force cannot produce a lasting long-term settlement.
One-hundred years from now, nobody’s going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays – nobody!
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.
I am the worst influence. If you can’t handle your vices, then I am the Devil.
‘The Devil in the White City’ – the ‘White City’ was the nickname for the World’s Fair of 1893, the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
As someone who’s run for office five times, if the Devil called me and said he wanted to set up a meeting to give me opposition research on my opponent, I’d be on the first trolley to Hell to get it. And any politician who tells you otherwise is a bald-faced liar.
