As the devil showed great skill in tempting men to perdition, equal skill ought to be shown in saving them. The devil studied the nature of each man, seized upon the traits of his soul, adjusted himself to them and insinuated himself gradually into his victims’s confidence – suggesting splendors to the ambitious, gain to […]
Devil Quotes
Some (demons) are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds.
No popular film in the last two decades treats the Devil with more seriousness and subtlety (than The Exorcist); indeed, it is stunnig to watch the film today. We all remember the vomiting and head-spinning, but what stands out now in an age of special effects is the dialogue about the nature of good and […]
For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.
Why should the Devil have all the good tunes? (Apocryphally attributed to Martin Luther.)
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
From his brimstone bed at break of day, A walking the Devil is gone. To visit his snug little farm the earth. And see how his stock goes on.
The devil’s most devilish when respectable.
And the Devil did grin, For his darling sin, Is pride that apes humility.
Thus say the common people that know him: “A saint abroad, and a devil at home.”
