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“If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.”

Ifs Firsts Would Be Devil Aim Folks Digging

“The Devil is perfectly willing that the church should multiply its organizations and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying...The Devil is not afraid of machinery; he is only afraid of God. And machinery without prayer is machinery without God.”

Ifs World Giving Should Christ Church Prayer Willing Praying Giving Up Devil Organization Not Afraid Conquest Machinery Without God

Author:R. A. Torrey

“I realized that there is something else that is influencing people to behave like that, and that's the taking of the souls away from God. If you get people to sin, they get pushed further away from God and eventually God doesn't really own the soul anymore. The Devil owns the soul and that's where the danger comes in. Because in the end, there's no do-overs.”

People Ifs Soul Ends Sin Influence Danger Devil I Realized Behave Influencing People

Author:Ralph Sarchie

“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."”

“It seems to me that the orthodox religions always know more about the Devil than I do and can describe him in more detail, and if I hadn't a nice type of mind I'd begin to wonder what company they keep when the moon rides high in the sky and good witches are doing simple little incantations and asking for spiritual guidance.”

Ifs Knows Mind Littles Seems Spiritual Simple Company Wonder Nice Sky Type Moon Devil Asking Details Guidance Orthodox Witch Spiritual Guidance Good Witch

Author:Sybil Leek

“If I were the devil I should broadcast doubts about the truths and relevance and good sense and straightforwardness of the Bible ... At all costs I should want to keep them from using their minds in a disciplined way to get the measure of its message.”

Ifs Way Want Should Mind Doubt Cost Messages Devil Relevance Good Sense

Author:J. I. Packer

“If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil.”

Ifs Men Devil

Book:The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc

Source: The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc

“Energy in itself is a sort of redemption. No wonder we admire Satan. But if the Devil were listless, if he were a pale man in his underwear who watched television by day behind closed venetian blinds - oh if that were the devil I would fear him.”

Ifs Men Energy Behinds Wonder Television Devil Admire Redemption Satan Pale Underwear

Book:A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic

Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic

“If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.”

Ifs Looks Mean Past Listening Devil Our Past Your Past

Book:Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings

Source: Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings

“The ultimate cause of spiritual depression is unbelief. For if it were not for unbelief, even the devil could do nothing. It is because we listen to the devil instead of listening to God that we go down before him and fall before his attacks.”

Ifs Spiritual Fall Causes Listening Devil Ultimate Unbelief Listening To God

Book:Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures

Source: Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures

“We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.”

“The Lord is letting the wheat and the tares mature before he fully purges the Church. He is also testing you to see if you will be misled. The devil is trying to deceive the very elect.”

Ifs Trying Church Lord Devil Mature Deceiving Testing Wheat Misled

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil.”

Ifs Play Wish Devil Angel Seducing

Author:Eliphas Levi

“If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.”

Ifs Devil Horse Thee Spurs

Author:Thomas Adams

“If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.”

Ifs Children Devil

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When I was little, my mom told me that if I lied, the devil would visit me in my sleep. To this day, if I tell even the smallest lie, I have bad dreams. Plus, I'm no good at it.”

Ifs Littles Dream Lying Sleep Mom Devil My Mom Plus This Day Smallest Lied Bad Dream

Author:Shannen Doherty

“Living in fear is what every hater, negative person, and the devil wants. Live a righteous life with God and nothing but positivity. You must forgive anyone who has done you dirty, and move on. Your personal life, career, and love life will be that much more amazing after. Life is too short to live it being empty inside, sad, angry, and defensive just to hide your pain. Let it all go and let love and happiness in. Put yourself out there all the way and don't be fearful of losing love. If you don't live life by fully enjoying it and opening your heart, your just not living.”

“Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.”

Ifs Numbers Devil Majority Saved Comparison

Author:Saint Augustine

“It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.”

Ifs Poor Situation Duty Worship Devil Relation International Servant Neglect International Relations Worship God Working For God

Author:Ramsay MacDonald

“Some of the reasons why Muslims would look down on America or even countries that have democracy, is because that's what they've been taught all their life. And it's not really their fault if you think about it, it's their government's fault for teaching people that America, them over there across the ocean, they're the devil.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Country Reason Government America Democracy Teaching Taught Ocean Devil Faults Reason Why

Author:Cristian Machado

“What if you went to Hell, and it was exactly what you thought it would be: just a cave with fire? And the devil really was this idiot in a red leotard with a pitchfork?”

Ifs Would Be Hell Fire Devil Red Idiot What If Caves Pitchforks Leotards

Author:Dana Gould

“There are quite a few things that the devil could tempt me with... I could be tempted by youth if I was allowed to hold on to all the wisdom that I've gotten. In everything, not just sports. In life. In acting. I'd be tempted by youth only so I could continue doing it a little longer.”

Ifs Littles Sports Acting Youth Devil Tempted

Author:George Clooney

“As long as something is happening it really does not matter if it is of God, of man or of the devil.”

Ifs Men Long Doe Matter Happenings Devil

Author:Rodney Howard-Browne

“When God moves, everybody will be blessed. If something is of the flesh, everybody will have a sick feeling. And if something is of the devil, it seems like the hair will stand up on your neck. That's a simple way everyone can judge, whether they've got any spiritual discernment or not.”

Ifs Way Feelings Seems Spiritual Moving Simple Judging Hair Devil Sick Blessed Flesh Necks Discernment Being Blessed Simple Ways

Author:Kenneth E. Hagin

“If I could ask Ken Lay one question right now, do you know what it would be? "Does the Devil really wear Prada?"”

Ifs Knows Doe Would Be Asks Right Now Devil Lays If I Could Do You Know Prada

Author:Jay Leno

“We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.”

People Ifs Individual Opinion Our Lives Offers Devil Excuse Myth Proof Preserves Dislike Reverse Decency

Author:Marlon Brando

“All of a sudden I found myself doing things like 'Robot Monster' and 'Cat-Women of the Moon,' and I didn't know what the devil was going on. But if you're going to do areally bad movie, at least you do one that is at the top of the all-time bad-movie list.”

Ifs Knows Found Moon Devil Cat Lists Monsters All Time Robots Bad Movies

Author:Elmer Bernstein

“Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!”

Ifs May Devil Dear Peaceful Sensible Posterity

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“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.”

Ifs Way Giving Believe Stills Life Is Prayer Answers Lord Praying Giving Up Devil Accounts Cease Tempted Repent Our Lord

Author:Teresa of Avila

“3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is an unfortunate mistake of the devil. But if it repents, it will be saved!”

Ifs Mistake Devil Saved Prime Unfortunate Repent

Author:Billy Graham

“I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'”

Ifs May Children Seems Remember Young Church Answers Devil My Friends Tradition Dear Doctrine Impulse Adviser Sacredness

Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

“If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it, play devil's advocate, and so on. It doesn't occur to them that they might help or get enthused or at least have the courtesy to get out of your way.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Giving Ideas Play Helping Might Devil These Days Courtesy Critique Devil's Advocate

Author:Esme Raji Codell

“Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.”

Ifs Hands Suffering Easy Alive Trouble Devil Parts Of Life

Book:Total Surrender

Source: Total Surrender

“Sometimes the names were humiliating, deliberately so. Somebody would pick out your flaw. If you were little, they would call you Shorty. And if you were angry, they would call you the Devil.”

Ifs Littles Sometimes Names Picks Devil Angry Flaws Humiliating

Author:Toni Morrison

“My mom, she got taken away from me when I was 14 years old. She is incarcerated. My sister was incarcerated. I was homeless. When my mom went away when I was 14... I was forced to live with my aunt. My aunt, she doesn't like rap music. She thinks rap music is the devil's music. Basically she said, "Yo, if you are going to do music you can't do it in my house."”

Ifs Thinking Years Said House Taken Mom Music Is Devil My Mom Rap My Sister Homeless Aunt Rap Music

Author:Sean Kingston

“I think that no matter what you do, whether you rodeo, whether you work in an office, you work in the oilfield or you play music for a living, eventually if you do enough of it, the devil in the back of your head tries to turn it into work. You have to find new ways to make it new and make it exciting to keep that drive there.”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Matter Enough Play Turns Office Devil Exciting No Matter What New Ways Rodeo

Author:Cody Johnson

“Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.”

Ifs Sometimes Devil Angel Be Good Nonsense Amusing No Nonsense

Author:William Hurlbut

“If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.”

Ifs Men White Devil White Man

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Suffering always prompts heart-wrenching questions: if God is good, why would He allow this pain in my life? Is God truly sovereign over accidents and birth anomalies, or does the devil set the world's agenda? How do I counsel people who are despairing of their condition?”

People Ifs World Heart Doe Pain Life Is Suffering Conditions Birth Devil Accidents Agendas Sovereign Prompts Anomalies Heart Wrenching

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“Everybody is God. Everybody is the devil. And if you don't realize you have both parts, that's what really causes problems.”

Ifs Problem Causes Realizing Devil

Author:Rob Lowe

“For centuries, epilepsy was the exact expectation of someone being possessed by the Devil. There was no better explanation, and it allows you to admit the existence of the Devil. If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.”

Ifs Mean Existence Century Expectations Devil Explanation Possessed Epilepsy

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.”

Ifs Mean Devil

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.”

Ifs Important Imagine Devil Argument Opponents Strongest Indispensable Skillful Devil's Advocate

Author:John Stuart Mill

“The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!”

Ifs Men White Prove Devil White Man Prove It

Author:Malcolm X

“You know which guys are doing steroids and which ones aren't. I don't judge anybody. Everybody has their own life and people do what they want. It's like smoking pot. If you experiment with it, it doesn't mean you're the devil, and it doesn't mean you've ruined your body. It just means you tried it.”

People Ifs Knows Want Mean Body Guy Judging Devil Your Body Experiments Smoking Pot Ruined Steroid Smoking Pot

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.”

Ifs Needs Wisdom Young Wise Devil Fellows

Book:Jesus, Remember Me: Words of Assurance from Martin Luther

Source: Jesus, Remember Me: Words of Assurance from Martin Luther

“I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.”

Ifs Knows Men Devil Angel Let Me Come Up

Author:Malcolm X

“If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.”

Ifs Love Life Prayer Devil Down And Everyday Reggae Saying A Prayer Rasta

Book:Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics

Source: Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics

“The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.”

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Author:Walter Martin

“It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?”

Ifs Believe Children Made Death Religion Understanding Christ Prayer Known Capable Standards Devil Masterpiece

Author:Dwight L. Moody

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