Devour Quotes

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Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a… — Ellen G. White
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires… — Andrew Marvell
We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space… — Dave Eggers
Satan is a "roaring lion, [who] walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." And he will devour us unless we "put on the whole armour… — Sheri L. Dew
1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour. — Joyce Meyer
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all… — Charlotte Bronte
A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made… — Robin Hobb
My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire… — Jim Butcher
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking,… — John Adams
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips,… — George Eliot
â€¦So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living… — John Dryden
As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can… — William H. Gass
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive. — Margaret Atwood
Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of… — Diane Duane
To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf. — Epicurus
But you can't kill humans It's-- Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption. — Guy de Maupassant
At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their… — Hanif Kureishi
You arrogant, overpublicized, showy old bat, what are you waiting for? Aren't you the king of all bogeymen? The legend children fear will devour them… — Jeaniene Frost

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