Quotes About Devil

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

Complaint is a prayer to the devil.

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil not that he practices it but he suffers from it.

I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else.

But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?

Well, the Devil's something else. I could buy that; in fact, maybe I do. You know why? Because the creep keeps doing commercials.

But your daughter doesn't say she's a demon; she insists she's the devil himself...

O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!

With devotion's visageAnd pious action we do sugar o'erThe devil himself.

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stolen forth of Holy Writ And seem a saint when most I play the devil.

Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.

William Shakespeare

The devil a puritan that he is, or anything constantly but a time-pleaser; an affectioned ass.

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil.

Conservatism, it was called; and certainly it did conserve the devil admirably.

Corrie ten Boom stated, "The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when get busy. But he trembles when we pray especially when we pray together.

When the people who are in power want to ... create an image to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.

The powers that be use the press to give the devil an angelic image and give the image of the devil to the one who's really angelic. They make oppression and exploitation and war actually look like an act of humanitarianism. This is not the kind of extremism that I support or that I go along with.

Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devil must exist as well, because we cannot prove it