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Quotes About Devil

Your story is a divine weapon that has the power to defeat the devil.
~ Sharon Jaynes
During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
He had looked up at the scoreboard to watch the replay, and a video of the highlights from his season that Billy Wareham, the team videographer, made the previous day in case Crosby hit 100. It was set to the Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil," a fitting, understated choice.
~ Shawna Richer
You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding him if it was aliens," Grandma said.
~ Janet Evanovich
Time: no start no end, the most powerful force in nature, killing more people than 100 atomic bombs, generating thoughts & ideas. Devil&Good
~ Rossana Condoleo
I think that 'God' would have a devil of a time if he was here on Earth.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.
~ Antony Gormley
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.
~ Mary Shelley
When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.
~ Mary Shelley
No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
~ Mary Shelley
But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am quite alone.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I was cursed by some devil, and carried about with me my eternal hell; yet still a spirit of good followed and directed my steps, and
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I cannot believe that I am he whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am quite alone.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
there had always been a God and a Devil—only men had been so mistaken about the shapes of their Devil—he was not single and big, he was many and smutty and small.
~ Ayn Rand
The senses are the devil's playground, the arena into which he will try to lure men away from Faith and into the conceits of the intellect or the delusions of carnality.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
In the eyes of the Church, all the witches power was ultimately derived from her sexuality. Here career began with sexual intercourse with the devil. Each witch was confirmed at a general meeting (the witches' Sabbath) at which the devil presided, often iin the form of a goat, and had intercourse with the neophytes. In return for her powers, the witch promised to serve him faithfully. (In the imagination of the Church even evil could only be thought of as ultimately male-directed!)
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Our culture's official rejection of the Crone figure was related to rejection of women, particularly elder women. The gray-haired high priestesses, once respected tribal matriarchs of pre-Christian Europe, were transformed by the newly dominant patriarchy into minions of the devil. Through the Middle Ages, this trend gathered momentum, finally developing a frenzy that legally murdered millions of elder women from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries.
~ Barbara G. Walker
I think maybe it is true that the idle mind is the Devil's workshop.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
For a minute the Sun came out, while it was snowing. People say that means the devil is beating his wife.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
The devil here is a boy with too much imagination," he usually said.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
But you will always be tempted and you need to know this. The devil is trying to shape your life with wounding and offense in order to keep you from a life defined by the purposes of God.
~ Stephen Mansfield
debating with the devil had never been productive for anyone.
~ Steve Berry
blame it all on the devil. Another New Testament creation. A fictitious nemesis upon which all bad things can be laid.
~ Steve Berry