Quotes About Belial

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

When nightDarkens the streets, then wander forth the sonsOf Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd, Fell not from Heaven, or more gross to love Vice for itself: to him no temple stood Or altar smoked; yet who more oft than he In temples and at altars, when the priest Turns atheist, as did Eli's sons, who filled With lust and violence the house of God. In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest tow'rs

to call a man without the Holy Spirit "upright and God-fearing" is the same as calling Belial "Christ".

An obscure character by the name of Belial. He is interpreted as a minion of the devil by some scholars, but that is wrong. It is ignorance. The name means, literally speaking, 'one who cannot be yoked,' and it is really every one of us who takes control of our own destiny while others blow in the wind. We may be punished for it, but we would never do it another way. We are all Belials.