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“"Eight Days of Luke" was refused by another confused publisher on the grounds that children shouldn't strike matches. When my agent pointed out that David in the book was twelve years old, the publisher said that he was striking matches to summon the devil, then, and this couldn't be allowed.”

Years Children Said Book Devil Eight Strikes Agents Confused Twelve Publishers Luke

Author:Diana Wynne Jones

“The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.”

Devil Fingers Tongue Lawyer Pie Clerks

Author:Thomas Adams

“If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.”

Ifs Prove Devil Angel

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Oh devil! truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie.”

Ifs Children Stills Lying Names Belief Lost Wife Truth Is Fame Devil Profit Penalties

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“An angel and a devil are always beside us, and the one we listen to more will prevail. This confrontation is what makes life so magical because you are always challenged by the circumstances - we are good and evil depending on how we act”

Evil Circumstances Devil Angel Good And Evil Confrontation

Author:Paulo Coelho

“A great door opened by God for work, but while I'm doing the work, all Hell breaks loose. Oh! The idea that when God opens a door and He's with you, you don't have to fight. Oh, what a joke. That is a joke. In fact, if you don't feel the devil fighting against you, that's a bad sign.”

Ifs Feels Ideas Facts Fighting Break Hell Doors Jokes Devil

Author:Jim Cymbala

“That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate.”

Trying Play Answers Creative Devil Tired Interviews Hazards Devil's Advocate

Author:Doug Martsch

“[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.”

Kind Soul Devil Holes Wicked Doorways Devil Love

Book:Mudbound

Source: Mudbound

“I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.”

Men Father Devil Angel Scripture

Author:Martin Luther

“I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God!”

Believe Mets Devil Word Of God Preacher

Author:Billy Sunday

“May God be with you and the Devil be crushed underfoot as you march for Peace on the skulls of our enemies, for goodwill, security, and a quality of life that comes only with Democracy”

May Quality Enemy Democracy Security Devil March Quality Of Life Crushed Skulls Goodwill God Is With You

Author:Ted Nugent

“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.”

Helping Suffering Christ Religious Bears Devil Endure Sake Trials Help Me Delicate Nurture Religious Life Delicate Life

Book:The Life of St. Teresa of Avila

Source: The Life of St. Teresa of Avila

“I did the Justice League thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You cant do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.”

Way Justice Too Much Internet Devil League Boards Comment Cant Wrong Way Justice League

Author:D. J. Cotrona

“If the Devil is real, then God must be real, too.”

Ifs Real Devil Being Real

Author:Jacob Vargas

“We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own.”

Devil Invites

Book:The Witches of Worm

Source: The Witches of Worm

“Money gained on Sabbath-day is a loss, I dare to say. No blessing can come with that which comes to us, on the devil's back, by our willful disobedience of God's law. The loss of health by neglect of rest, and the loss of soul by neglect of hearing the gospel, soon turn all seeming profit into real loss.”

Real Soul Law Turns Loss Blessing Devil Profit Dare Hearing Neglect Disobedience Seeming Sabbath Sabbath Day

Book:The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon

Source: The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon

“When God blesses you, don't let no devil in hell move you out of your place of blessing!”

Moving Hell Blessing Devil Bless God Bless God Bless You

Author:T. D. Jakes

“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.”

Ifs Thinking Men Ends Might Humanity Can Do Justice Dangerous Ought Cost Safe Devil Evidence Absolutes Sake Guides Trials Impulse Agreement Finding Yourself Dangerous Things Treacherous

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“A man who smiles when he falls gives the Devil a good slap!”

Men Giving Fall Devil Slap

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!”

Men Thousand Devil Defeat

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!”

Fame Devil Angel Obscurity Stay Away From Me

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!”

May Universe Devil Pilots Captains

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In an industry that has the capacity underutilization that we have, why wouldn't we? It's just common sense. Apparently they're successful (in Canada). Our standard approach is not to cookie cut things. Every market is different, every theater is different. The devil's in the details.”

Different Common Successful Cutting Industry Approach Standards Devil Capacity Theater Details Common Sense Canada Cookies

Author:Gerry Lopez

“If the Devil is an evil computer, who the hell programmed it? Who is the Dr. Frankestein of this abominable character?”

Ifs Character Evil Hell Computer Devil Drs

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you can deceive the Devil, you can no longer call yourself as human!”

Ifs Humans Devil Deceiving

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil!”

Land Devil Rivers Calm

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It is up to man to be an angel or a devil! You become whatever you choose to be!”

Men Devil Angel You Choose

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous; patience is only for the immortals!”

Men Should He Man Devil Mortals Impatient Impetuous

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“You work for the devil, you better be ready to die for him.”

Dies Ready Devil Ready To Die

Author:Garth Ennis

“It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.”

People World Interest Religious Highest Devil Disagreeable

Author:Hubert Van Zeller

“Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.”

Men World Race He Man Citizens Devil Refuse Admire Nationalism Divides Superstitions Englishmen Disturbance Irishmen

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil”

Sin Pay Promise Devil

Author:Ralph Venning

“I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.”

Ifs Fighting Speak Born Path Cutting Failing Devil Let Me Obstacles Remove Sincerity Hypocrite Thorns Speak The Truth Factions Straight Path Quagmire

Author:Martin Luther

“Behind the cross is the devil.”

Behinds Devil Crosses

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.”

Laughing Devil Pity

Book:Billy Sunday speaks

Source: Billy Sunday speaks

“The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!”

Way Devil Fiddle

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Fifine at the fair; Red cotton night-cap country

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Fifine at the fair; Red cotton night-cap country

“The Devil will use our words and his dictionary.”

Use Devil Dictionary Our Words

Author:Adrian Rogers

“We must kill the Devil afresh every day.”

Devil

Book:Past master

Source: Past master

“Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.”

Mind Firsts Causes Beats Devil

Author:Son House

“Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.”

Evil Beauty Virtue Devil Empty Hypocrisy Trunks

Book:Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool.”

People May Stills Voice Cases Fool Hundred Devil Nine Fifty Forty Voice Of God

Book:Letters, Selected and Edited by Elting E. Morison

Source: Letters, Selected and Edited by Elting E. Morison

“The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.”

Firsts Kind House Doors Devil Empty Guests Uninvited

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.”

“I hear Jerry Falwell every Sunday here talking about the devil and Hollywood. . . . I'm gonna write him a letter. Hollywood wasn't built on filth and dirt - it was built on talent.”

Writing Talking Talent Devil Built Letters Hollywood Sunday Dirt Jerry Filth

Author:Mickey Rooney

“My biggest thing is banana pudding, but it's the devil! So no one is allowed to bring it into my house. Because I can't control myself. So why put it in my domain?”

I Can House Devil Domain Because I Can Bananas Pudding Control Myself

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.”

People Thinking Done Spirit Evil Belief Theory Goodness Devil Good And Evil

Author:Paul McCartney

“I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.”

Writing Action Reading Found My Own Fiction Grace Subjects Devil Territory

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“We came to this earth that we might have a body and present it pure before God in the celestial kingdom. The great principle of happiness consists in having a body. The devil has no body, and herein is his punishment. He is pleased when he can obtain the tabernacle of man. . . . All beings who have bodies have power over those who have not.”

Men Body Might Earth Principles Pure Devil Punishment Kingdoms Celestial

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!”

Ifs Kings Devil Refuse Shade Dictator Obeying

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Surprise is the tool of the Devil and it is the greatest power of the evil forces!”

Evil Force Devil Tools Surprise

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

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