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“When the flesh presents thee with delights, then present thyself with dangers; where the world possesses thee with vain hopes, there possess thyself with true fear; when the devil brings thee oil, bring thou vinegar. The way to be safe is never to be secure.”

World Way Danger Safe Devil Delight Oil Flesh Temptation Secure Thee Vain Thyself Vinegar

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“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.”

Giving Hard Remember Order Prayer Devil Labor Accounts Delight Abandon Distraction Recollection

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.”

World Can Do Pleasure Attention Accepting Risk This World Devil Praise Injustice Delight Enjoyment Ruthless Stubbornness Gladness Furnaces

Author:Jack Gilbert

“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.”

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Author:Charles Baudelaire

“You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative life. You are becoming a neuter machine. You cannot love, even if you knew how to begin to love. Every thought is a devil, a hell-if you could do a lot of things over again, ah, how differently you would do them! You want to go home, back to the womb. You watch the world bang door after door in your face, numbly, bitterly. You have forgotten the secret you knew, once, ah, once, of being joyous, of laughing, of opening doors.”

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.”

Feels Believe Two Fall Interest Race Existence Equal Devil Opposites Errors Delight Magician Unhealthy Hail Screwtape Letters

Book:The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil

Source: The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil

“Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.”

World Lord Devil Delight Deny Flesh Despise

Book:The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: with a Memoir of Her Life. By N. H. Nicolas. L.P.

Source: The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: with a Memoir of Her Life. By N. H. Nicolas. L.P.