Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp’d the Devil If I thank’d my God for worldly things.
Devil Quotes
The devil is evil in disguise, particularly in the guise of goodness. Angels are goodness disguised, often wrapped in brown paper bags, so to speak tremendously ordinary. One has to be particularly careful, therefore, in celebrating virtues because virtues, particularly great virtues, can veil great evil. There are terrorists for truth and God and love […]
Mr. Roper said “So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law!” Thomas More replied: “Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? Mr. Roper said “I’d cut down every law in England to do that!” Thomas More replied: (Roused and excited): “Oh? And when the […]
If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.
No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.
The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismists, which is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is a God.
