Devil Quotes

You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest. pg 248

Jennifer Donnelly

The truth is, the Devil's job is easy.

Tyler Edwards

Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.

Criss Jami

I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil

Samuel Johnson

Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.

Harley King

In his youth, he was electrified. The stars were moving in his bloodstream. He would not have been cowed by the customs of an earthly monarch. When he loved, it was with a heat and a desperation that he carried like a sword. He loved in the way that Greeks burned cities.

Brenna Yovanoff

Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard onAnd no one will pardon the snakeLook who invents him and later torments himThen makes us repent our mistakes

Christine Anderson

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...

E.A. Bucchianeri

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

Martin Luther King Jr.

You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer, said Miss Pross, in her breathing. Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

Charles Dickens

I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.

Jodi Picoult

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell

Oscar Wilde

God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.

E.A. Bucchianeri

I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him

Martin Luther King Jr.

When devils will the blackest sins put onThey do suggest at first with heavenly shows

William Shakespeare

It comes as no surprise to find [Norman] Mailer embracing [in the book ] a form of Manicheanism, pitting the forces of light and darkness against each other in a permanent stand-off, with humanity as the battlefield. (When asked if Jesus is part of this battle, he responds rather loftily that he thinks it is a distinct possibility.) But it is at points like this that he talks as if all the late-night undergraduate talk sessions on the question of theism had become rolled into one. 'How can we not face up to the fact that if God is All-Powerful, He cannot be All-Good. Or She cannot be All-Good.'Mailer says that questions such as this have bedevilled 'theologians', whereas it would be more accurate to say that such questions, posed by philosophers, have attempted to put theologians out of business. A long exchange on the probability of reincarnation (known to Mailer sometimes as karmic reassignment) manages to fall slightly below the level of those undergraduate talk sessions. The Manichean stand-off leads Mailer, in closing, to speculate on what God might desire politically and to say: 'In different times, the heavens may have been partial to monarchy, to communism, and certainly the Lord was interested in democracy, in capitalism. (As was the Devil!)'I think it was at this point that I decided I would rather remember Mailer as the author of and .

Christopher Hitchens

This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!

Steve Maraboli

Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads

Martin Luther King Jr.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

Martin Luther King Jr.