Quotes About Devil

What the devil is Chocho?' Will whispered. Horace's grin broadened. 'You are. It's what the men call you,' he said. Then he added, 'It's a term of great respect.' Behind them, Halt nodded confirmation. 'Great respect,' he agreed.

I was brought up in a religion by which I was always taught to renounce the devil; but should I comply with your desire, and go to Mass, I should be sure to meet him there in a variety of shapes.

Where Johnny chose to see cause and effect, Jack saw the hand of God, and of the devil himself. That wasn't hyperbole or false belief; he knew it like he knew his bones: that the world ran shadowed and deep, that evil was real and had a face. Because of that, Jack sought order, solidity, control.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Of that duality that makes us who we are, he is wholly evil. Duality? We are all two things in a way, are we not? Deep in the marrow. Angel and devil. Light and dark. The pull between the two is the active verb which energizes our lives.

ON WHITES AS "DEVILS" "It's what He revealed, and what He revealed is what I am teaching and believe in, and this term "devil," or name "devil," is applied to wicked people, people who are by nature wicked. "They were made white, or different color, because they had been grafted out of the darker people, and, therefore, they have that color." ON FRUIT OF ISLAM "The Fruit of Islam means the first converts

The Devil can quote scripture, after all. And monsters can say "please" and "thank you" same as any mother's son.

He understands, also, that this offer represents a fundamentally wrong order to the universe. You should bow down and worship Jeoffry! "Right," the devil says. "I thought as much.

The devil smiled: a slight man, unassuming, his hands knotted in the pockets of his beautiful coat.

Sometimes he thought he plunged through darkness eternally and heard nothing but the Devil's amiable laughter, and knew nothing but the heat of his own Hell.

The Devil might claim he could not see in human hearts. But Lucifer was, after all, the Prince of Lies. And when those lies went clothed in truth, so much the better.

Of course I love him. I made him. And he came back through history to unmake me. You don't get to fall out of love with the Devil.

Oh, this will never do, she thought. He could kiss like the very devil and be astute.

The dichotomy between sexuality and spirituality can only take root in countries founded on puritanical principles—countries that cannot laugh at the Devil because they would be mocking God, too.

ET DAIBOLUS INCARNATE EST. ET HOMO FACTUS EST.

En la horca negra bailan, amable manco, bailan los paladines, los descarnados danzarines del diablo; danzan que danzan sin fin los esqueletos de Saladín. ¡Monseñor Belzebú tira de la corbata de sus títeres negros, que al cielo gesticulan, y al darles en la frente un buen zapatillazo les obliga a bailar ritmos de Villancico!

Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents.

To argue that God is "trying His best" to save all mankind, but that the majority of men will not let Him save them, is to insist that the will of the Creator is impotent, and that the will of the creature is omnipotent. To throw the blame, as many do, upon the Devil, does not remove the difficulty, for if Satan is defeating the purpose of God, then, Satan is Almighty and God is no longer the Supreme Being.

True conversion is the renouncing of the world, the flesh, and the devil; and it is at our peril that we lust after the things we have abandoned. As Matthew Henry (1662-1714) says, "Drawing back is to perdition, and looking back is towards it.

Who are you?" "The devil," she said. "The devil in love.

And which devil do you prefer? Dante's?" "No. Much too terrifying. Too medieval for my taste." "Mephistopheles?" "Not him, either. He's too pleased with himself. Too much a trickster, like a crooked lawyer ... Anyway, I never trust people who smile a lot." "What about the one in The Karamazovs?" "Petty. A civil servant with dirty nails. I suppose the devil I prefer is Milton's fallen angel.

En realidad no hizo sino confirmar un dogma: la existencia del diablo fue establecida por el cuarto Concilio de Letrán. Hablo de 1215...

cuando la necesidad apretaba, hasta el diablo servía de escudero.

Pongamos, por precaución, otra vela al diablo.