Devil Quotes · Page 72

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man

— Sigmund Freud

I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's probably an authority.

— Henry B. Eyring

“Who would dream of bringing charges against the devil when you are in hell?”

— Annick Cojean

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

— Jose Bergamin

“[The Devil] I sincerely love people--oh, so much of what has been said about me is slander!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“If you got the devil to pay, he'll want extra red-eye on his biscuit. He always do.”

— Randy Thornhorn

Madam Walker's name gets thrown out as either the savior of black women's hair or she's the evil devil.

— A'Lelia Bundles

You have to make doubt and devils obey you. Don't ever treat the devil nice. Treat him mean and tell him what…

— Roberts Liardon

The devil sees nothing more abominable than a truly humble christian, for [that Christian] is just the opposite of [the devil's] own…

— Hans Nielsen Hauge

When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him…

— Thomas Aquinas

Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I…

— Patricia Briggs

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who…

— Martin Luther

A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if…

— Hollis Frampton

Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from…

— Increase Mather

[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they…

— Helen Van Slyke

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do…

— Anne Rice

Avoid duplicity, that is, do not let your heart be divided between attachment to God and attachment to earthly things, 'You cannot…

— John of Kronstadt

God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold…

— Seraphim of Sarov

If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave…

— Ray Bradbury

Don’t be impressed by darkness. Jesus didn’t do the opposite of whatever the devil did. He did what He saw the Father…

— Bill Johnson

He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language…

— Mary Balogh

People say there is an angel guiding us threw life. People say there is a devil who is an angel too. People…

— Kevin McCarty

When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in…

— Aldous Huxley

“What you inherit from your father must first be earned before it's yours.”

— Goethe

It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am Gods slave, not that of…

— Kedar Joshi

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

— Martin Luther

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.

— Barbara Tuchman

“They rose at five, which is Satan’s hour, as everyone knows,”

— Kristan Higgins

If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

— Hudson Taylor

Money is not of the devil. It depends on who's controlling it.

— Mase

The devil, he ain't been seen for years, except every twenty minutes. He zooms between me ears.

— The Clash

Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell.

— Joss Whedon

Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

— J. I. Packer

“I would rather look the Devil in his eyes, than for him to sneak up on me.”

— Lionel Suggs

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

— Marie Windsor

Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

Never play with the Devil if you are afraid to shake the dice because you will never throw a six.

— Vikrant Parsai