I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.
Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.
When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.
Marketing is the devil.
Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.
It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
Initially, the television was seen as the devil incarnate by people that worked in the content industry. Now over time it turned out that that was one of the best things that ever could have happened to a content creator. I think the Internet is no different.
The devil's name is dullness.
Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil's snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil's snare.
The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.
The devil always has the better tunes!
The devil is compromise.
We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
'The Devil's Dictionary' reads like a collection of great Twitter posts. And as people do with tweets, they can swipe Bierce's best lines and recite them as nearly their own. The reflected glory of reposting.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.
Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.
