“If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.” IfsChristianNextFailingSucceedDevilAverageBelieverChristian InspirationalSaved Author:Vance Havner
“If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.” IfsGivingFirstsFailingDevilAimAnesthetics Book:God in the Dock Source: God in the Dock
“Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.” MenWayHumansHopeEnemyBreakGreaterFailingComfortDevilHardestMiserableHuman LifeNecksYieldSmoothCalamityBeamPresumptuous Author:Owen Feltham
“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.” IfsFightingSpeakBornPathCuttingFailingDevilLet MeObstaclesRemoveSincerityHypocriteThornsSpeak The TruthFactionsStraight PathQuagmire Author:Martin Luther
“History rewards all research. And history fails to record one single instance in which the white man - as a people - did good. They have always been devils; they always will be devils, and they are about to be destroyed. The final proof that they are devils lies in the fact that they are about to destroy themselves. Only a devil - and a stupid devil at that - would destroy himself!” PeopleMenFactsLyingWhiteRecordsFailingStupidResearchDevilRewardsFinalsProofDestroyedInstanceWhite Man Author:Malcolm X
“When reason fails, the devil helps!” InspirationalReasonHelpingFailingDevilCrime And PunishmentRaskolnikov Book:Crime and Punishment Source: Crime and Punishment
“Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commits acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.” IfsLittlesMadeUseNamesFailingDevilSittingBlameTinyShouldersCommitLuciferBlame Me Author:Neil Gaiman
“If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.” IfsTwoThreeHoursPrayerMorningFailingVictoryDevilSpendingChristian Prayer Author:Martin Luther