Devil Quotes
2117 quotes by 1328 authors
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There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I…
— H.G. Wells
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I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse...…
— C.S. Lewis
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It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses,…
— Thomas Paine
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Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
— Alan Valentine
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with…
— Saint Augustine
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Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
— Nelson DeMille
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If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if…
— Mechthild of Magdeburg
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My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil…
— John B. S. Haldane
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The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of…
— William Hazlitt
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Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of…
— Tertullian
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Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around…
— Isaac Asimov
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The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he…
— Vincent de Paul
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I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in…
— Antony Gormley
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Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.
— Joyce Meyer
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My dad was my swim coach growing up, and I tried to get kicked out of practice every day. I was a little devil kid.
— Ryan Lochte
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In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!
— Mona Singh
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The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves…
— Kevin DeYoung
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the…
— J C Ryle
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History proves that the white man is a devil.
— Malcolm X
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