Quotessence
Home / Topics / Devil Quotes

Devil Quotes

Browse 3028 quotes about Devil.

Related topics

IfsMenEvilKnowsPeopleAngelWorldThinkingHellMayBelieveSoulWaySatanSinChristianGivingWellsDoeMadeChristWantSaidShouldFirstsHeartReligiousChildrenJesusLittlesHeavenHumansMindHandsLordLooksSpiritSaintChurchLongStillsEyeHas BeensNeedsLyingNamesPersonsTryingMeanPrayerTwoCausesFeelsMightBookFatherFightingKindPlayEnemyEndsPoorPrayingSidesWholeChristianityHelpingMy SoulSometimesDemonEarthRunningSeemsUseWould BeWritingYearsBodyDoneInspirationalLightRealRememberSelfWhiteCrossesGodHolyReligionSonTemptationCareFacesFleshHumorWarBlackDealsDoorsIdeasmore

Devil Quotes

“The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. ... It would be far, far better for us to let a thousand devils roam the world, and publicly preach the doctrine of devils (if there were such a thing, which there isn't), than to let one impostor and monster such a Moses, Joshua, Samuel or the Bible prophets come speaking the so-called word of God, and causing men to believe it.”

IfsMenWorldBelieveHumansWould BeRaceThousandDevilMiseryMonstersHorribleDoctrineCrueltyHuman RaceProphetRevelationsWord Of GodWickednessMoses
Author:Thomas Paine
Create image

“A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its substance, but resists and overcomes all the fury of the fiery heat; even so, he that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil.”

BelieveLosesHellFireDevilGoldOvercomingRemainsSecureSubstanceHeatBelieve In GodMisfortunesFuryShieldsFear NotFieryFear Nothing
Book:The Table Talk of Martin Luther
Create image

“In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. In that case, one can understand why the emperor's tailors get upset and suggest the person doing the pointing is a tool of the devil. Then the question comes down to one of whether the crowd will believe the evidence they have before them, or if they will buy into the tailors' fantasies.”

IfsBelievePersonsRealityExistenceCasesFantasyClothesDevilEvidenceToolsCrowdsUpsetConspiracyQuestioningPointingEmperorSatanicTailors
Author:Michael A. Stackpole
Create image

“To escape the power of the unknown, to prove to yourself that you don't believe in it, you accept its spells. Like an avowed atheist who sees the Devil at night, you reason: He certainly doesn't exist; this is therefore an illusion, perhaps a result of indigestion. But the Devil is sure that he exists, and believes in his upside-down theology. What, then, will frighten him? You make the sign of the cross, and he vanishes in a puff of brimstone.”

BelieveBookReasonNightLanguageResultsAcceptingProveIllusionDevilCrossesDon't BelieveAtheistTheologySpellsUpside DownPuffIndigestion
Book:Foucault's Pendulum
Create image

“I dislike The Exorcist, and I found it a warning sign of the dangers in a furious cinematic talent putting the audience through it (a Hitchcock phrase) without purpose, or without the nagging moral anxiety that activated Hitch. You see, I don't think William Friedkin believes in the Devil, or cares about him. I think he found exorcism a pretext for a gross-out and he calculated there was an audience for it, or a crowd ready to be challenged. Maybe I'm too much of an atheist to stand religion being so thrashed.”

ThinkingBelieveCareFilmPurposeFoundMoralAudienceToo MuchTalentDangerReadyAnxietyDevilHollywoodAtheistCrowdsPhrasesWarningDislikeGrossFuriousPretextCinematicHitchcockNaggingExorcismExorcistWarning Signs
Author:Edward Jay Epstein
Create image

“Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists. I believe my country is beginning to resemble a theocracy. Using television, the evangelists raise appalling amounts of money which they then invest in the election of mentally disabled obscurantists.”

BelieveCountryPassionI BelieveTelevisionAmountDevilRaisesElectionDisabledProtestantsGood GodEvangelistsTheocracyMentally Disabled
Author:Gore Vidal
Create image

“When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.”

PeopleIfsMenYearsBelieveLooksTwoWould BeTodayChristianFacesTurnsI BelieveFeltReligiousPoorLordMorningThousandDevilYears AgoStandingPityExposedThousand YearsPoor PeopleOur LordChristian AtheistQueues
Book:The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes
Create image

“We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.”

IfsBelieveWellsMadeGodEvilPerfectMistakeTheoryCreatingCapableDevilPerfectionCancerCompelledOmnipotentOmniscientEpilepsy
Author:George Bernard Shaw
Create image

“The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . .”

KnowsBelieveWarCountryOrderBehindsAcceptingGroupsTvsTruth IsDevilArmyInternationalTerrorismCampaignsTerroristPropagandaIslamicAlsOfficersEntityRepresentingUnifiedWatchersTerrorist GroupsIntelligence Officers
Author:Robin Cook
Create image

“In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching spiritual thing. We are the light and the dark, and have to own the darkness. It's part of us. It's not evil. It's needed. You need to own both of them to be whole. Absorb it, and live it as part of your life.”

NeedsBelieveWholeLightSpiritualCultureEvilEasyDarkDarknessGreaterNeededDevilWesternNarrativeWestern CultureDichotomy
Author:Kevin Sessums
Create image

“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."”

IfsWorldGivingShouldBelieveLooksLongTodaySchoolChristChurchPrayerLaughingWillingFinePrayingGiving UpDevilOrganizationBreathsBrilliantSatanSundayOrgansPreacherAlmightyConquestEarnestPersistentMachineryChoirAlmighty GodSunday SchoolChurch TodayYmca
Author:R. A. Torrey
Create image

“You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My god! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the devil! Most of mankind has believed in the devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the devil.”

PeopleBelieveMeanAmericaJesusChristMankindDevilJesus ChristIntelligentCirclesMainstreamMelting
Author:Antonin Scalia
Create image

“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
Create image

“We've fallen for the devil's lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment. Sin doesn't make life interesting; it makes life empty. Sin doesn't create adventure; it blunts it. Sin doesn't expand life; it shrinks it. Sin's emptiness inevitably leads to boredom. When there's fulfillment, when there's beauty, when we see God as he truly is-an endless reservoir of fascination-boredom becomes impossible.”

BelieveRealityLyingSinInterestingImpossibleAdventureDevilEmptyStrategyEndlessFulfillmentFallenBoredomEmptinessAdamEmployedShrinksFascinationAdam And EveReservoirs
Book:Heaven
Create image

“I came in rather late in the casting process of Reaper. I believe they had all the other roles cast. They were having trouble finding the devil. They had seen almost 100 actors for the role. I got the script and I liked it - it was clever and witty and very, very funny, and a nice, fresh take on an old story. I went in and did a scene for the producers, the kitchen scene from the pilot where I'm cooking a chicken-fried steak. At the end of it, they all had a smile on their face, and they realized they had found their devil.”

BelieveI BelieveNiceTroubleSceneDevilCookingWittyCleverProducersKitchenReaper
Author:Ray Wise
Create image

“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”

PeopleKnowsBelieveStillsEvilLiteratureDifficultGoodnessDevilCeaseBelieve In God
Book:The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned
Create image