Best devil & desire Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.”

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Author:John Dryden

“The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.”

Ifs Men Book Hands Desire Language Devil Affair Worthy Setting Settings

Book:Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: Hound of the Baskervilles

“One starts gambling for a joke, out of curiosity, as a little challenge to fortune. One goes on, pricked to the quick by delusions, excited by vague desires that grow. Woe to you if you win anything - an AMBO, a small TERNO! It is all up with you, for your chance of winning seems certain. ... It is the devil's money going back to hell.”

Source: The Land of Cockayne (Matilde Serao) (Literary Thoughts Edition)

“As God illumines all people equally with the light of the sun, so do those who desire to imitate God let shine an equal ray of love on all people. For wherever love disappears, hatred immediately appears in its place. And if God is love, then hatred is the devil. Therefore as one who has love has God within himself, so he who has hatred within himself nurtures the devil within himself.”

People Ifs Inspirational Light Christian Desire Religious Sun Equal Devil Hatred Shining Disappear Orthodox Rays Nurture God Is Love

Author:Saint Basil

“One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.”

Men Should Soul Use Desire Certain Names Practice Virtue Devil Weak Vices Foolish Passing Passings Contempt Artifice Debauchery

Author:Blaise Pascal

“When an archer desires to shoot his arrows successfully, he first takes great pains over his posture and aligns himself accurately with his mark. It should be the same for you who are about to shoot the head of the wicked devil. Let us be concerned first for the good order of sensations and then for the good posture of inner thoughts.'”

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Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“When the devil looks at a man who sincerely desires not to sin, he is not so unintelligent as to suggest to him (as he would to a hardened sinner) that he go and commit fornication or go and steal. He knows we do not want that and he does not set out to tell us something we do not want to hear; but he finds out that little bit of self-will or self-righteousness and through that, with the appearance of well doing, he will do us harm.”

“And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.”

Spirit Desire Choices Objects Devil Angelic Power Of Choice Objects Of Desire

Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. (New Year's Eve, 1947)”

Giving Years May Real Desire Hate Passion Memories Enemy Strange Battle Devil Give Me Army Greed Envy Lust New Year Love Hate Toasts New Years Eve

Author:Patricia Highsmith

“A lack of desire is something I've never experienced. I'd have to be on my deathbed before I stopped wanting-- no, never mind, I was on my deathbed in the not-too-distant past, and even then I had the devil's own itch for my wife." -Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent”

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Book:Mine Till Midnight

Source: Mine Till Midnight

“The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.”

Desire Wish Devil Red Temptation Satan Deep Thought Horns Capes Careful What You Wish For

Book:Assholes Finish First

Source: Assholes Finish First

“You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!”

Art Beautiful Desire Wish Poverty Goodness Devil Fellows Noble Aspiration Heels Pauses Remorse Crushed Ending Poverty Goodness And Truth

Book:The Journalism: 1834-1846

Source: The Journalism: 1834-1846

“There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just 'that way' and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil. No one is locked into that kind of life. From our premoral life we were directed into a physical body. There is no mismatching of bodies and spirits. Boys are to become men-masculine, manly men-ultimately to become husbands and fathers. No one is predestined to a perverted use of these powers.”

“You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew; he hath now access to your fancy to stir up lustful thoughts and desires, so that when you should think of your calling, of your God, or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit to be named. If the devil here get in a foot, he will not easily be got out.”

Source: The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme

“A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church that continually strives to take God's side in the battle against the ungodly desires and deceits of the world, our flesh, and the devil. It's a church that continually seeks to conform itself to God's Word.”

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Author:Mark Dever

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