“Superstition originates among ordinary people in the early and all too zealous instruction they receive in religion: they hear of mysteries, miracles, deeds of the Devil, and consider it very probable that things of this sort could occur in everything anywhere.” PeopleMysteryOrdinaryDevilMiracleDeedsInstructionSuperstitionsOrdinary PeopleZealous Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fenFrom man protected - where each form assumesGigantic stature and intention, loomsFrom wind-moved, twilight-woven histories:For them each flower teems with mysteries.” MenMindChildrenFormMysteryFiguresWindFlowerDevilMovedIntentionHillsBeastHeroicElsewhereTwilightProtectedPersistWovenObsoleteStatureDemigods Book:The collected satires and poems of Osbert Sitwell Source: The collected satires and poems of Osbert Sitwell
“There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.” BelieveTwoGodEvilForceI BelieveAliveMysteryDevilHarderSatan Author:Billy Graham
“I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.” WritingLittlesStoriesSeemsGuyAsksFeltBitsMysteryHorrorLittle BitDevilGhostUncomfortableDemonNastyOur LoveDetectivesHorror StoriesGoblinDetective StoriesBoogie Author:Stephen King
“The saints are like the Lord, but so are all people who keep the commandments of Christ; but those who live according to their own passions and do not repent are like the devil. I think that if this mystery were revealed to the world, then they would stop serving the devil, and every one would strive to serve the Lord with all his strength, and to be like Him.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldInspirationalChristianPassionChristReligiousLordMysteryDevilStriveSaintOrthodoxServingCommandmentsRepent Author:Silouan the Athonite
“When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!” EarthFallHouseSexBlackMysteryBirthOffersDevilRainSacredFleshScriptureSnowKingdomsMysticismRemembranceUnjustPillsCountingMaterialisticCorridorsSacred Texts Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“If a Devil is one who dares, when others hold back, then I am happy to play the Devil in this Mystery, boy.” IfsPlayBoysMysteryDevilDare Book:Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman Source: Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman
“What is your name?" "Again sir, that is no concern of yours." "A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you Clorinda." ..... "Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. "Has there been an accident?" "Judith," repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. "I prefer Clorinda.” SaidNamesMysteryDevilConcernAccidentsGentleman Author:Georgette Heyer