Adversity Quote by C. S. Lewis

“The times change, but the nature of men does not. Such men ... will not find our new age more favorable, and they will…

— Michael Ennis

“Even if this battle against Satan concerns all men and all times, there is no doubt that Satan’s power is felt more keenly in…

— Gabrielle Amorth

“The horrors of the Middle Ages were really nonexistent. A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our present-day life…

— Hermann Hesse

The devil has his elect.

— Thomas Carlyle

Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the…

— Suzanne Massie

“Is it surprising that the people could see their fate and that of the world only as an endless succession of evils? Bad governance,…

— Johan Huizinga

When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and…

— Rumi

Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we…

— Sinclair Lewis

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To give the devil its due, ours is the best Age men ever lived in; we are all more comfortable and virtuous than we…

— John Galsworthy

The end of an age is always a time of turmoil, war, economic catastrophe, cynicism, lawlessness and distress. But it is also an era…

— R.J. Rushdoony

“The devil loves these short, dark days.”

— Alice McDermott