Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.
Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!
The good news is there's no devil. The bad news is there's no heaven. There's nothing.
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)
Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.
If our age in its pride laughs at and rejects Our Lady's Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of every age and of every condition have not only held it most dear and have most piously recited it but have also used it at all times as a most powerful weapon to overcome the devil, to preserve the purity of their lives, to acquire virtue more zealously, in a word, to promote peace among men.
One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.
Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.
There are religions in which the representation of the world is banned as an usurpation of the power of a God, creator of all things. It is very possible that photography is a trick of the devil and each shot is a sin.
Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.
You don't believe in God, Rachel. You don't believe in goodness or love or mercy, do you?" "I haven't seen enough to form an opinion. " "But you believe in the devil?" "When I'm sitting in a car with him, yes," she said.
You never know when the devil might come calling.
In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.
To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.
Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.
Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.
In time of war, the Devil makes more room in Hell.
Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!
The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.