quotations about the devil
It's a long, long lane that has no turning
And the fire that always keeps on burning
Mister Devil down below, pitchfork in his hand
And that's where you are going to go, do you understand?
BESSIE SMITH
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"Devil's Gonna Get You"
He was a free thinker, and had little faith in God, although his name was constantly on his lips. He had lived too long, and mixed too much with men, to believe that God meddles much with the affairs of this world; on the other hand, he had a strong belief in the devil, of whom he stood in great fear.
ÉDOUARD RENÉ DE LABOULAYE
Abdallah
Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was whose guile,
Stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived
The mother of mankind, what time his pride
Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host
Of rebel Angels, by whose aid, aspiring
To set himself in glory above his peers,
He trusted to have equalled the Most High,
If he opposed, and with ambitious aim
Against the throne and monarchy of God,
Raised impious war in Heaven and battle proud,
With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky,
With hideous ruin and combustion, down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
We are all acquainted with demons, aren't we? Sometimes they are more subtle than the Devil in person. They are those things that clutch at us, strangle us, force us to obey them. They control us with great delight, and finally they own us. Demons are certainly as much around today as they were in Jesus' day. They are more subtle, perhaps, and so we think we have outgrown them. Because we call them by other names, we have a way of missing them. But there is still a great force surrounding us that tries to push us into what is not of God.
MACRINA WIEDERKEHR
A Tree Full of Angels
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
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Most men would gladly give their souls to the Devil, were he willing to accept them.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.
BIBLE
Revelation 12:9
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
letter to "A.", Aug. 2, 1955
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
JOHN STEINBECK
East of Eden
The devil is like unto a chained watch-dog, which can go to the length of his chain, but no further.
F. KUEGELE
The Lutheran Witness, June 7, 1885
The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the Church.... what is the use in a Pope, if there is no Devil?
HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY
Isis Unveiled