quotations about the devil
It's a long, long lane that has no turning
And the fire that always keeps on burning
Mister Devil down below, pitchfork in his hand
And that's where you are going to go, do you understand?
BESSIE SMITH
"Devil's Gonna Get You"
In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.
JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD
"The Case of Beauvais,", Back to God's Country and Other Stories
God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.
JENNIFER DONNELLY
Revolution
The devil is like unto a chained watch-dog, which can go to the length of his chain, but no further.
F. KUEGELE
The Lutheran Witness, June 7, 1885
God's eyes lie in the Devil's hands.
THE ACACIA STRAIN
"Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow", Death is the Only Mortal
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.
BIBLE
Revelation 12:9
Most men would gladly give their souls to the Devil, were he willing to accept them.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
letter to "A.", Aug. 2, 1955
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
MILAN KUNDERA
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
JOHN STEINBECK
East of Eden
The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the Church.... what is the use in a Pope, if there is no Devil?
HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY
Isis Unveiled