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Quotes About Devils

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.
~ Gene Wilder
I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime
~ Immortal Technique
Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I am not forsaken! I'm no longer alone in the darkness! Before my eyes I see a thousand little devils lighting black candles along the path which leads toward the edge...the blindingly beautiful edge.
~ Susan Kay
Be strong! … You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair." None but the bravest deserves salvation.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud; an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated from the hills in the background; as if a company of devils, detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound and were bandying it to and fro.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Little devils wrestled with little angels in the innermost chambers of my conscience. The devils cheated, of course, although where my conscience was concerned they were also more familiar with the terrain.
~ Tom Robbins
the island chain had achieved such a terrible reputation, thanks to its reefs and to the unearthly screams of the island's millions of cahows, that mariners were calling Bermuda the Isle of Devils.
~ Kieran Doherty
More details, more devils.
~ George R.R. Martin
Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they're less than women.
~ Francois Rabelais
The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone. H e l l i s e m p t y a n d a l l t h e d e v i l s a r e h e r e I kiss my way across the words. Kissing away the devils. Kissing away the pain.
~ Tahereh
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
~ Eric Butterworth
Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.
~ Stephen King
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
~ Saint Augustine
The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness.
~ Charles Grandison Finney
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
~ William Blake
By smiling, we turn devils into angels, enemies into friends; the cup of poison becomes the loving cup.
~ Christina Stead
A general who wages war for a republic whose cause is not just would make devils of soldiers, and turn honor to evil.
~ Christopher Moore
I know what good morals are, but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.
~ Tupac Shakur
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new way of living—one without massacres and torn throats and bonfires of the fallen, without revenants or bastard armies or children ripped from their mothers' arms to take their turn in the killing and dying. This was not that world.
~ Laini Taylor
Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?' Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils.
~ Cassandra Clare
They're devils who pretend to serve the Church and Christ, but they serve only themselves. They lust for power, power at any cost. They hide behind a net of poverty and piousness, but underneath, they feed like kings and amass fortunes.
~ James Clavell
pay no attention to the scarecrows the devils set up in order to cause fear. We should know that each time we pay no attention to them they are weakened, and the soul gains much more mastery.
~ Teresa of Avila
The powers of devils are nothing if these devils do not find souls cowardly and surrendered to them; it is with such souls that they show their power.
~ Teresa of Avila