Quotes about Devil
The call to discipleship, or baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, means death and life. Christ's call, or baptism, means placing the Christian into a daily struggle against sin and the devil.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is the question of resistance and of submission in the right place; that is, resistance to the devil is only possible in the fullest submission to the hand of God.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
- Laurence Sterne
Black flies, no-see-ums, deer flies, gnats and mosquitoes were instituted by the devil to force people to live in cities where he could get at them better. If it weren't for them everybody would live in the bush and he would be out of work. It was a rather successful invention.
- Ernest Hemingway
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
- St. Jerome
Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The devil ought not to be in our line of vision but in our shadow.
- Leonard Sweet
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
- Milan Kundera
Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
- JC Ryle
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
- Dorothy Sayers
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
- Billy Sunday
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
- Billy Sunday