Devil Quote by George Santayana

The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and…

— Swami Vivekananda

When you are subjected to the malicious and furious violence of the passions, and to the harassments of the Devil, during the fulfillment of…

— John of Kronstadt

The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by…

— Thomas Merton

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any…

— Horace Mann

The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and heart; in…

— John of Kronstadt

It is a ruse of the devil, by which he deceives good people, to induce them to do more than they are able, so…

— Vincent de Paul

“It sometimes so happens that people who imagine that they are fighting the devil, whatever their particular notion of the devil may be, are…

— René Guénon

One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues,…

— Blaise Pascal

“We must realize that we are all, like Dr. Faust, ready to accept the devil's inducements. The devil is in each one of us…

— Alexander Lowen

While you are meditating revenge, the devil is meditating a recruit.

— Francois de Malherbe

When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

. . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and body by…

— Vincent de Paul