Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil – this is clear.
It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.
You’ve got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven… I have the devil in me! If I didn’t have, I’d be Christian!
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.
The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan’s prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.
I haven’t become a satanist, but I am fascinated by the character of the devil.
The devil is compromise.
When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy – some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.
Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.
The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you’ll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It’s a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
‘The Exorcist’ is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.
Protection against the influence of the devil comes through the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the good news that Jesus Christ has made a perfect Atonement for mankind.
When you realize my best selling books are ‘Owl Moon,’ the ‘How Do Dinosaur’ books, and ‘Devil’s Arithmetic,’ how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!
Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.
Afghans long ago resigned themselves to this sort of thing. Compromises must be made. Deals with the devil are better than ceaseless butchery. In the exigencies of post-conflict bygones, against the threat of collapse into more terrible bloodletting, the ugliness of realpolitik is the lesser evil.
The Tigris in parts is wonderfully tortuous, and at one great bend, ‘The Devil’s Elbow,’ a man on foot can walk the distance in less than an hour which takes the steamer four hours to accomplish.
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don’t know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.
A footballer isn’t a devil or a saint.
You bear the weight of the club’s history on your shoulders, and you only become a true Red Devil once you understand this.
Playing devil’s advocate with myself is very, very hard. It’s a 24-hour thing. Because I know there’s a possibility that people are going to come after me, they’re not going to understand me, so I have to be ready.
Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.
Have you ever read the back of the Newman’s Diavolo pasta sauce? Dad on the front is dressed like the devil with a little beard and horns. He says that he sells his soul to the devil for the recipe. It was banned in the South. They thought it was an abomination.
With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We’re going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs – now or in the future.
If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.
Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
I don’t even own a TV because I think it’s the devil.
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
When I met my wife 20 plus years ago, she was a vegetarian, so I was the closest thing to the devil that she had ever met.
As a craftsman, I bust my butt as much for ‘Blade 2’ as I do for ‘Devil’s Backbone.’
This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
I’ll be very content if I never play ‘Devil Went Down to Georgia’ again.
