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Devil Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part,…
- There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other…
- A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a…
- Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.
- The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.
- I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man…
- If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you…
- Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
- Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar.
- He (the devil) always sends errors into the world in pairs--pairs of opposites...He relies on your extra dislike of one to draw you gradually into…
- Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else…
- Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers…
- The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers,…
- There is something in natural affection which will lead it on to eternal love more easily than natural appetite could be led on. But there's…
- 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...…
More Devil Quotes
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila
- I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that… — Jim Carrey
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
- God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude… — Lionel Blue
- When we are going to enter the water ... in the presence of the congregation and under the hand of the president,… — Tertullian
- A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams… — Ron Franscell
- In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And… — Tertullian