quotations about the devil
We are all acquainted with demons, aren't we? Sometimes they are more subtle than the Devil in person. They are those things that clutch at us, strangle us, force us to obey them. They control us with great delight, and finally they own us. Demons are certainly as much around today as they were in Jesus' day. They are more subtle, perhaps, and so we think we have outgrown them. Because we call them by other names, we have a way of missing them. But there is still a great force surrounding us that tries to push us into what is not of God.
MACRINA WIEDERKEHR
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A Tree Full of Angels
In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.
JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD
"The Case of Beauvais,", Back to God's Country and Other Stories
Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile,
Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived
The mother of mankind, what time his pride
Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host
Of rebel Angels, by whose aid, aspiring
To set himself in glory above his peers,
He trusted to have equalled the Most High,
If he opposed, and with ambitious aim
Against the throne and monarchy of God,
Raised impious war in Heaven and battle proud,
With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky,
With hideous ruin and combustion, down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Don't you know there ain't no devil? There's only God when He's drunk.
TOM WAITS
"Heartattack and Vine"
You're just another spirit on parole
Devil's food
ALICE COOPER
"Devil's Food", Alone in His Nightmare
Most men would gladly give their souls to the Devil, were he willing to accept them.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.
BIBLE
Revelation 12:9
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
letter to "A.", Aug. 2, 1955
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
JOHN STEINBECK
East of Eden
The devil is like unto a chained watch-dog, which can go to the length of his chain, but no further.
F. KUEGELE
The Lutheran Witness, June 7, 1885
The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the Church.... what is the use in a Pope, if there is no Devil?
HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY
Isis Unveiled