“He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer] who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter and shorter--until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then have gone away to more interesting company.” MayLongLastsLeftInterestingCompanyGoneMagicDevilEmptyTablesBelieverPlatesModernitySpoonsLeft AloneSupperGone AwayLast Supper Author:Peter L. Berger
“These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on Her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most holy Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.” WorldMayHas BeensHandsLightPastChurchEnemyDesignHolyDevilSacredFilledRaisedPossessionChairsBitternessPeterSheepThronesPastorSpouseLambsCraftyImmaculateLight Of The WorldHoly Places Author:Pope Leo XIII
“If we can forgive everyone, regardless of what he or she may have done, we nourish the soul and allow our whole being to feel good. To hold a grudge against anyone is like carrying the devil on your shoulders. It is our willingness to forgive and forget that casts away such a burden and brings light into our hearts, freeing us from many ill feelings against our fellow human beings.” IfsFeelsHumansHeartMaySoulDoneWholeFeelingsLightHuman BeingsForgetForgivenessDevilFellowsForgivingCastsIllBurdenShouldersFeel GoodWillingnessGrudgeForgive And ForgetCast AwayIll Feelings Author:Sydney Banks
“If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.” IfsKnowsMenHeartMayEndsLightStrongPracticeHellForeverKnowingDevilLaborIncreaseMiserableBitesTormentWormsUndoneCondemnationLashesNot StrongRecompenseScorpionsLight And Knowledge Author:Thomas Brooks
“When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!” MenMayLittlesChristianLastsSinChristianityBoysDoorsBecomingDevilWindowRoundsRuinsSatanSinnerIronThievesPreacherChamberLittle BoysBaptistsBaptismShuttersBack Doors Author:Charles Spurgeon
“You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.” HeartMayDevilOrthodox Author:George Whitefield
“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you needwhen you can say, 'Thou, O Christ, art all I want.' But listen, be careful: it may strip you of everything else you have; you may lose some of your best friends who think you're fanatical; they don't mind you being kind or good, but you become holy and zealous” ThinkingWantMindKindMayArtJoyChristLosesLordHolyDevilCarefulEntertainmentSubstitutesBe KindBe CarefulYour Best FriendZealous Author:Leonard Ravenhill
“For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.” FirstsMayFormPiecesFashionShapesDevilCatPotWitchClayPottersGoatsTiles Author:Aino Kallas