T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil.”
“The Devil may also make use of morality.”
“The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.”
“The devil may not be interested in preventing you from knowing the undone job. What he may do is to make you think it’s somebody’s job and not yours.”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“The devil may seem clever and cunning, but he is still a creature of God. Therefore, God must take all the credits, both good and bad. But that means nothing to Him.”
“The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.”
Source: The Birth of Venus: A Novel
“The devil messing with you doesn’t break My heart as much you messing with each other. In those moments, you become like devils. You! My precious children!
(The cry of a weeping Father — GOD)”
“The Devil might claim he could not see in human hearts. But Lucifer was, after all, the Prince of Lies. And when those lies went clothed in truth, so much the better.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!”
“The devil never gave a gift for free.”
Source: Blood Colony: A Novel
“The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.”
Source: Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family
“The devil never sleeps. He keeps me company.”
Source: The New Land
“The devil never sleeps.”
“The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.”
Source: Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon
“The Devil never tempts us with more success than when he tempts us with a sight of our own good actions.”
“The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney
“The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.”
Source: Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena
“The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.”
“The devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left.”
Source: Playing with Fire
“The devil—one might face anything if one but knew what was to be faced! ~117, SA: Sh. Stories, 1962”
“The devil only exists because of your belief in him; same goes for that other guy.”
“The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“The devil prince of this world, but this world don’t last so long for mortal man.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
“The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”
“The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.”
Source: The Life of St. Teresa of Avila
“The devil resists serious, focused prayer because he's defeated by it. And so the devil will try to attack our concentration in prayer; he will try to confuse or contradict the content of our prayers; he will do his best to distract and/or divert us in prayer so that we're crippled by inconsistency.”
“The Devil’s Book: a three-foot-tall ancient book some believe the devil himself wrote. Yes, the real devil. Others think the book contains all the secrets of mesmerism.”
Source: The High Auction
“The Devil's Chapel by Stewart Stafford
Spires writhing in audacity's sky,
Laced masonry's Faustian high,
The Devil's Chapel invites by lie,
Embalmed, a cracked stone altar dry.
The golden Madonna rises above all,
Lucifer's War, in stained glass, tall,
In horned shadow, the angelic fall,
Dark kingdom formed of a lightning ball.
Bartholomew flayed by sadistic chagrin,
Bones laid bare, devotion anchored within,
Skin in the game took centuries to win,
Gargoyles leer in the paying tourist din.
Behind the veil of confession wood,
The all-seeing eye drips with blood,
Trickster's snare in nightmare's flood,
A gift shop trades where sacrifice stood.
Pungent echoes in incense crawl,
Catacombs beckon entombed gall,
To witness ornate veneration's pall,
Silent to a martyr's last breath call.
Croziers rest in chilled silver's display,
As pink-veined marble taints today.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“The Devil’s greatest trick isn’t getting you to think he doesn’t exist. Quite the reverse. It’s getting you to think he’s God and that you must obey him without question. Devil worshippers aren’t a rare exception in our world – they’re the norm.”
Source: Abraham: The World's First Psychopath
“the Devil's hand directs our every move
the things we loathed become the things we love;
day by day we drop through stinking shades
quite undeterred on our descent to Hell.”
Source: Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book
“The Devil's minions worked his treacherous plot through the hearts of men, possessing them, ruling them. These hounds of hell ran wild these days through their human hosts, working greater and greater abominations.”
“The Devil's Rose
You would never take a rose from a beast.
If his callous hand were to hold out a scarlet flower, his grip unaffected by pricking thorns, you would shrink from the gift and refuse it. I know that is what you would do.
But the cunning beast will have his beauty.
He hunts not in hopeless pursuit, for fear would have you sprint all the day long. Thus, he turns toward the shadows and clutches the rosebud, crunching and twisting until every delicate petal is detached. One falls not far from your feet, and you notice the red spot in the snow.
The color sparkles in the sunlight, catching your curious eye. No beast stands in sight; there is nothing to fear, so you dare retrieve the lone petal. The touch of temptation is velvet against your thumb. It carries a scent you bring to your nose, and both eyes close to float on a cloud of perfume.
As your lashes lift, another scarlet drop stains the snow at a near distance. A glance around perceives no danger, and so your footprints scar the snowflakes to retrieve another rosy leaflet as soft and sweet as the first. Your eyes shine with flecks of golden greed at the discovery of more discarded petals, and you blame the wind for scattering them mere footprints apart. All you want is a few, so you step and snatch, step and snatch, step and snatch.
Soon, there is enough velvet to rub against your cheek like a silken kerchief. Your collection of one-plus-one-more reeks of floral essence.
Distracted, you jump at the sight of the beast in your path. He stands before his lair, grinning without love. His callous hands grip at thorns on a single naked stem, and you look down at your own hands that now cup his rose. But how can it be? You would never take a rose from a beast. You would shrink from the gift and refuse it. He knows that is what you would do.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“The devil's weapon is an illusion of our imagination.”
“The Devil said I can't have it all. But if I could, I would give it to you.”
Source: I Took a Plane to Die in Denver
“The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe.”
“The devil sends disillusionment to such people who have the desire to do something for God”
“The Devil sends the precipices; God sends the bridges! When you come across a precipice, look for the bridge; it is somewhere there!”
“The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.”
“The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.”
“The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.”
Source: Anywhere He Leads Me
“The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too
busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.”
“The devil steps up to the podium, clears his throat and taps out time with his baton: in come the monstrous iron kettle drums of artillery, joined by a woodwind section of whistling bullets and shrieking shells, the ever-crackling light percussion of rifle fire.”
Source: If Then
“The devil still rebelled, despite having lived in paradise for many years.”
“The devil stole into the Garden of Eden.
He carried with him the disease— amor deliria nervosa —
in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a
magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood.”
Source: Delirium
“The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University”
“The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God.”
“The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.”
Source: Le bonheur dans le crime
“The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.”
“The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.”
“The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.”