Quotes About Devil

If you fights the devil, you become him. "Maybe it takes a devil to fight a devil," I said "But at the end of that fight, Bathsheba," he said, "don't only devils remain?" And for a moment in the ocean, there was only blackness. We were alone. Even with ourselves And whatever devils lurked, unseen.

I watched him, warily. "You have let your devil get away from you." He looked genuinely confused. "To what other purpose is a devil?

The Devil never shows up on time for his own staff meetings, preferring instead to make everyone else stew and wait. Sometimes it's a few minutes, sometimes a few weeks. It can get pretty ugly. Considering

The Devil tended to do it better than his underlings. Likes to give the marks less wiggle room to get out of the contract. The lesser demons are so anxious to get any soul that they'll promise the world and deliver Jersey. Of

Whether you take kindly or not…" started the Devil. I cut him off. "Sure we could take kindly, but then there would be a problem. Where would we put it? How would we take care of it? And then the cops would come asking all sorts of embarrassing questions about where kindly was. Quite frankly the whole thing seems more trouble than its worth," I said.

Later he would say that the Church led him to God, and LSD led him to universe. He also said that art led him to the devil, and sex kept him with the devil.

for although he is said to be a liar from the beginning, not one case is known, in all devil-lore in which the Devil attempts to cheat his stipulators. Thus he appears as the most unfairly maligned person, and as a martyr of simple-minded honesty.

While thus the Devil, having profited by experience, always insists upon having his rights insured by an unequivocal instrument (which in later centuries is signed with blood); he, in his turn, is fearlessly trusted to keep his promise, and this is a fact which must be mentioned to his honor, for although he is said to be a liar from the beginning, not one case is known, in all devil-lore in which the Devil attempts to cheat his stipulators. Thus

Your adversary is the Devil, with his army of demons. Your battle with him rages not only all around you, but also within you, a fierce conflict for control of your mind, your heart, and your ultimate destiny.

No doubt the Devil is busy tempting us and trying to distract us even when we attend Mass.

God gives the Devil power against us in two modes: either for punishment when we sin, or for glory when we are tested.

the other great refuge from the Devil and his wiles is prayer before the Blessed Sacrament.

Each time we sin, the Devil strengthens his grip on us. Through Penance, we loosen that grip and pull free of his control. Not only do we receive forgiveness of past sins; we receive grace to resist temptations to come.

Matrimony. The Devil's first attack on the human race was focused on a married couple.

The Scripture tells us that the fervent prayer of righteous believers has great power in its effects (see Jas 5: 16). That's why, when Our Lord Himself taught us how we should pray, He included the petition: "Deliver us from evil"—which can also be translated, "Deliver us from the Evil One," that is, from the Devil.

There's an old ghost story about that, I remember, how the devil steals souls by asking for them openly. He isn't a thief, but a master manipulator. The real danger, or so the story goes, isn't in the devil himself, but in not knowing you have a choice to turn him away.

I met the devil,' Ernest said, finishing his glass of wine, 'and he doesn't give a damn about art.

There's an old ghost story about that, I remember, about how the devil steals souls by asking for them openly. He isn't a thief, but a master manipulator. The real danger, or so the story goes, isn't in the devil himself, but in not knowing you have a choice to turn him away.

In the distance, a dust devil churned like a dervish, whirling into a patch of flame trees and unhousing a fat band of vultures.

May a cat eat him and may the devil eat the cat

Het moest de Duivel zijn die het gereedschap om het goede te doen uitkoos. Hij nam daarvoor de nobele mensen die vrees konden kennen. Maar als de goeden konden doden noch vernietigen dan was het goede hulpeloos.

When the devil reminds us of our past sins, that is condemnation;

OW: Well, you see, I'm not like you. I'm not judgmental. With me, it's, "Here I am, not going to Africa." I don't say to myself, "Why don't you go to Africa?" I don't discuss it with myself. Because if I did, I would go to Africa. So it is the self-indulgent devil in me that stops the dialogue.

Worry is the Devil's disciple, it rots the soul.