Quotes About Devil

There was no sorrow till the devil pumped it up," as we say in Russian.

The Grand Conspiracy, a Devil-substitute for an age that was too grown-up to believe in the horned version, had been born. 'There is something satanic about the French Revolution that distinguishes it from everything we have known, and perhaps from everything we will ever witness

Life is cheerful, that's the devil's talk.

I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief.

I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?" And he says, How much time do you want?

If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.

Devil, worked with Henry Allen and the day laborers, and it

We should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus.

The world is not divided between Christ and the devil; it is completely the world of Christ, whether it recognizes this or not. As this reality in Christ it is to be addressed, and thus the false reality that it imagines itself to have, in itself or in the devil, is to be destroyed. The dark, evil world may not be surrendered to the devil, but must be claimed for the one who won it by coming in the flesh, by the death and resurrection of Christ.

The call to discipleship, or baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, means death and life. Christ's call, or baptism, means placing the Christian into a daily struggle against sin and the devil.

There is the question of resistance and of submission in the right place; that is, resistance to the devil is only possible in the fullest submission to the hand of God.

To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals.

When the devil comes, he comes on angel's wings.

The Devil for a joke Might carve his own initials on our desk, And yet we'd miss the point because he spoke An idiom too dated, Audenesque.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

The phone rang. She looked, and her heart sank. Speak of the devil. But if she had a choice between discussing her own funeral with the catering lady and talking to

After the movie we have an unspoken understanding to hustle out so we don't run into Genevieve again. The two of us bolt out of the theater like the devil is on our heels--which, I suppose, she sort of is.

Hello, Devil. Welcome to Hell.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

Root was a notorious bon vivant, whom Louis Sullivan once described as "a man of the world, of the flesh, and considerably of the devil.

I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing. DR. H. H. HOLMES CONFESSION 1896

Black flies, no-see-ums, deer flies, gnats and mosquitoes were instituted by the devil to force people to live in cities where he could get at them better. If it weren't for them everybody would live in the bush and he would be out of work. It was a rather successful invention.

I'm not scared," she says defiantly. "If the devil wanted me, he would have come for me when he got Chelsea.

It's as if you've already crossed over; the devil has won your soul. Additional stains don't matter. And yet this wasn't true for me. The idea of fudging my time and squeezing out more money for the work I had done hadn't even occurred to me. Did that mean I had successfully rationalized my adultery, that somehow what I was doing was not immoral and therefore I still had a lily-white soul to protect?