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Quotes About Devil

To the grim poor there need be no pourquoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her--is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil...?
~ Gregory Maguire
One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her—is it every the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
~ Gregory Maguire
One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her -- is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? It is at the very least a question of definitions.
~ Gregory Maguire
Será que o diabo já se esforçou para ser bom de novo ou, se fizer isso, não é um demônio?
~ Gregory Maguire
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this.
~ Gustave Flaubert
That is but the device of the devil to seduce the faithful more easily. He attacks the strong through the mind, the weak through the flesh.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Well, then I will go on, however painful it may be to me to recall those terrible memories. What temptations! What trials! The devil often makes use of the most innocent things to lead a man astray.
~ Guy de Maupassant
The devil is present in the mine, taking form in all the greed, the misunderstanding, the envy, and the betrayals among the men. He believes that the devil has come from the surface, attaching himself to those letters, the offers of money and fame, to pit them against one another.
~ Hector Tobar
The Low Church rectors, in the main, struggle with poor congregations, born to the faith but deficient in buying power. As bank accounts increase the fear of the devil diminishes, and there arises a sense of beauty. This sense of beauty, in its practical effects, is identical with the work of the Paulist Fathers.
~ H.L. Mencken
As to what the things were—explanations naturally varied. The common name applied to them was "those ones," or "the old ones," though other terms had a local and transient use. Perhaps the bulk of the Puritan settlers set them down bluntly as familiars of the devil, and made them a basis of awed theological speculation.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
It all began, old Ammi said, with the meteorite. Before that time there had been no wild legends at all since the witch trials, and even then these western woods were not feared half so much as the small island in the Miskatonic where the devil held court beside a curious stone altar older than the Indians.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.
~ Stephen King, 11/22/63
I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.
~ Troy Kennedy Martin
Know that Truth sees through bullshit. So if you can't handle looking at Truth, you must be a Devil's culprit.
~ Suzy Kassem
A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
~ Walter Martin
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in: I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
~ Sir William Bragg
We stay strong. We stay positive, keep our heads up, love one another, spread love. The Devil can't win when you have God on your side.
~ Mavis Staples
Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
~ Robert Herrick
Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.
~ Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
And may he be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows he's dead." Standing
~ Max Allan Collins
It was Milton," he certificatively added, "who converted me to diabolism." "Diabolism? Oh, yes? Really?" said I, with that vague discomfort and that intense desire to be polite which one feels when a man speaks of his own religion. "You—worship the devil?" Soames shook his head. "It's not exactly worship," he qualified, sipping his absinthe. "It's more a matter of trusting and encouraging.
~ Max Beerbohm
Also, a mob has no conscience and no remorse. It is the nearest thing to a devil that exists, and it is also the nearest thing to the divine mercy and courage. It
~ Max Brand