T Quotes
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“The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.”
“The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
“The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.”
“The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.”
“The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our bodies with misfortune and harm. Hence it comes that he often breaks men's necks or drives them to insanity, drowns some, and incites many to commit suicide, and to many other terrible calamities. Therefore there is nothing for us to do upon earth but to pray against this arch enemy without ceasing. For unless God preserved us, we would not be safe from him even for an hour.”
“The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God.”
“The devil is not the prince of matter; the devil is the arrogance of spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns from whence he came.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and, in moving, he always returns whence he came.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.”
Source: Lectures Upon Shakspeare
“The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.”
“The devil is our spiritual police man. Unless you wish to do good, then you will be saved from getting a ticket or going to court.”
“The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying... Satan laughs softly, as he looks at the Church today, and says under his breath: "You can have your Sunday schools, your YMCAs...your grand choirs, and your fine organs, and your brilliant preachers...as long as you do not bring into them the power of Almighty God, sought and obtained by earnest, persistent, believing, mighty prayers."”
“The Devil is perfectly willing that the church should multiply its organizations and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying...The Devil is not afraid of machinery; he is only afraid of God. And machinery without prayer is machinery without God.”
“The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.”
Source: The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“The Devil is primordial Evil, the Heart of Chaos Who is eternal. He was and He will be. The j.c. conception is just one of many human concepts; it will be destroyed as all human concepts will be. You can find the Devil's shadow in every human religion, because everyone knows that Evil exists. It’s not evil of people who all will die. It’s Eternal Evil that will destroy the Universe.”
“The devil is ready to do anything for us not to attain our goal”
“The Devil is real, and He's not just a little red man with horns and a tail. He can be beautiful, because He's a fallen angel. And He used to be god's favourite.”
“The devil is real. He lives inside C programs.”
Source: Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
“The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.”
“The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.”
“The devil is stronger and smarter than we are; so arguing with him won’t help us very much and can actually enhance our difficulty. Jesus has provided us with the way to resist…there are Scripture passages to refute every one of [the devil’s] lies. Immersing ourselves in the Bible is one of the primary ways we keep, or guard, our hearts.”
Source: Trust: A Godly Woman's Adornment
“The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.”
“The Devil Is:
The personality that is in full agreement with the thoughts of the Carnal Mind (the pride of the soul and Satan).”
Source: The Seduction Of Eve
“The devil is the reason for all the problems we have in the society.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“The devil isn't so bad if you are devil.”
“The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.”
“The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he’s had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.”
Source: You've Already Got It!: So Quit Trying to Get It
“The devil knew not what he did when he made man
politic; he cross'd himself by't; and I cannot think but,
in the end, the villainies of man will set him clear.”
Source: Timon of Athens
“The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.”
“The devil knows how to play a good game. He is after one thing: He wants from you what he will never have, and that is breakthrough.”
Source: Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom
“The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.”
Source: Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power
“The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil”
Source: Caramelo, Or, Puro Cuento
“The devil knows that if the elders of Israel should ever wake up, they could step forth and help preserve freedom and extend the gospel. Therefore the devil has concentrated, and to a large extent successfully, in neutralizing much of the priesthood. He has reduced them to Sleeping Giants.”
Source: An enemy hath done this
“The Devil knows that only those with the courage to risk their souls for love are entitled to have a soul, even if God does not.”
Source: Horns
“The devil knows the Bible like the back of his hand...”
“The Devil knows your name but calls you by your sin. God knows your sin but calls you by your name.”
“The devil lacks inspiration that's why he has to imitate everything. Cultivate your thoughts!”
“The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.”
“The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.”
Source: The Neon Wilderness
“The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?”
“The devil lives in the shadow of subtle things--those things people keep hidden from others. They reside in the lies they tell themselves, in order to justify their pain or fear. It is the slight, the dig, the silence and the unspoken truth that we minimize to a passive aggressive status, as if it were a lesser evil. Integrity is not subtle. It speaks loudly, so everyone can hear and be healed. It is something you will never have to search for because it is seen and felt.”
“The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“The devil loves and always rejoices over the ungoverned; those who are not subject to one who has power, under God, to help them and to give them a hand.”
Source: Discourses and Sayings
“The devil loves it when we say we believe then prioritize everything in our lives ahead of God.”
“The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.”
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“The Devil made me do it the first time -
the second time I done it on my own”
“The devil made you a slave. Your waitin' for the devil to come from the ground. Take a look around. Just look at the cross that the priest is holdin'. A beast, in sheep's clothin'. You are the prince of darkness. Hell born, demonic.”
“The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.”
Source: Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family
“The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.”
“The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which “God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.”
Source: New Seeds of Contemplation