Quotes about Devil
This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
- Origen
The only way the devil can hurt God is through humans, and so he focuses upon us. His strategy is to try to frustrate God's purpose for humanity
- Dallas Willard
The existence of the devil is so clearly taught in the Bible that to doubt it is to doubt the Bible itself.
- Chip Ingram
The people's revolution is on the march, and the devil and all his angels cannot prevail against it.
- Henry A. Wallace
A church debt is the devil's salary.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.
- Leonard Ravenhill
Fear is the tool of a man-made devil.
- Napoleon Hill
The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which "God is satisfied, and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.
- Thomas Merton
THE theology of the devil is really not theology but magic. "Faith" in this theology is really not the acceptance of a God Who reveals Himself as mercy. It is a psychological, subjective "force" which applies a kind of violence to reality in order to change it according to one's own whims.
- Thomas Merton
First, the desert is the country of madness. Second, it is the refuge of the devil, thrown out into the "wilderness of upper Egypt" to "wander
- Thomas Merton
When God tells you of a sickness, it is because He means, at the same time, to provide a remedy. It is the Devil who tells us that we are ill and taunts us for it, reminds us of our helplessness by making us even more helpless.
- Thomas Merton