Devil Quotes
2117 quotes by 1328 authors
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He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with…
— Peter L. Berger
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A dimple on the chin, the devil within.
— Pope Paul VI
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These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid…
— Pope Leo XIII
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Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
— Vachel Lindsay
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I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one
— Jay Electronica
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The devil does not stay where music is.
— Martin Luther
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Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance
— Confucius
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Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake
— Thomas More
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Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.
— Lady Jane Grey
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Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of its manifestations is…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.
— Albert Speer
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The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our…
— Tom Robbins
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In that realm you will know at last the good news: that your "devil" does not exist, that you are who you always thought you…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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They will attach you in the morning and they will come booming - skirmishers three deep. You will have to fight like the devil until…
— John Buford
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If we can forgive everyone, regardless of what he or she may have done, we nourish the soul and allow our whole being to feel…
— Sydney Banks
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the…
— Isaac Watts
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Whenever there remains any support for the ego within, even if it be only an atom's weight, then you are pretentious and have a devil…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and…
— Martin Luther
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