“A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.” EvilSocialChurchDangerousDivineDevilAccountsClaimsCarrieLicenseMixtures Book:Gravity and Grace Source: Gravity and Grace
“Our world is guided by two principles and sources: God and the devil. All that is better in the world of men has its source in God, and all that is bad has the devil as its principle and source. In the final account, all good comes from God, and all evil from the devil.” MenWorldInspirationalTwoChristianEvilReligiousPrinciplesSourceDevilAccountsFinalsOrthodoxOur World Author:Justin Popovic
“But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.” YearsEvilBalanceDrawsDevilConscienceAccountsDebtSixtySixteen Book:DON JUAN Source: DON JUAN
“Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it. Let him then who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil.” GivingHardRememberOrderPrayerDevilLaborAccountsDelightAbandonDistractionRecollection Author:Alphonsus Liguori
“Let him never cease from prayer, who has once begun to pray, even though his life is ever so bad. For prayer is the only way to amend one's life and without prayer it will never be mended. Let him not be tempted of the devil, as I was, to give up prayer on account of one's unworthiness. Let such a one rather believe that if he will only repent and pray, our Lord will still hear and answer.” IfsWayGivingBelieveStillsLife IsPrayerAnswersLordPrayingGiving UpDevilAccountsCeaseTemptedRepentOur Lord Author:Teresa of Avila
“'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'” WaySciencePiecesOffersDevilAccountsUnexpectedPriestsCried Author:George Herbert
“Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.” PersonsBookHandsFoundDecisionMiddleWindHairMountainDevilAccountsTablesAngryExtraordinaryLipsPassingPassingsAppealsIsolationTestamentThunderCastingSecrecyNew TestamentDemagogy Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton