1,053 Quotes About Devil

Ko, dakle, prodaje dušu đavolu? Niko. Svi ti što mene služe, eh, svi ti, svi su oni davno propali, pre nego što su mene sreli. A drugo, ja ne kupujem. I ja volim kada mi se od scra da, a ne kada se traži para.

God's best joke, so far as he himself was concerned, was not being there. Simply not there. Neither God nor the devil. For if the devil had been there, God would have been there too. All that was there was the memory of a sordid disgusting stupidity and now an enormous knockabout. First an affair of dust-bins and then a farce. But that was what the devil really was: the spirit of dust-bins. And God? God in that case would be simply the absence of dust-bins.

It's always in the back of my mind that, biblically, the Devil isn't portrayed with horns and a pitchfork... Instead, the enemy always comes disguised as everything you want and think you need.

We need a road of trials, a succession of ordeals, to provide the resistance we must overcome in order to become moral (rational), which is to say intelligent. If we met no resistance, there would be no need for us to evolve. For a system to evolve into God, it needs the maximum possible resistance – it needs the Devil. The “world” is Satanic in order that we must become God to overcome it.

When you refuse the devil, you always think you’ll get another chance, another offer. A final refusal feels like a penalty of a different kind.

I used to be a devil myself.

If there is a devil—and I believe there is—his work is to divide. If there is a Savior—and I believe there is—His work is to unite. It follows, therefore, that where division is, the devil is nearby. My proper response to division, then, is to disengage myself from whatever is causing it. If I would be on the side of the Redeemer, then I will do His work: I will engage in acts of reconciliation; I will become a peacemaker.

Resist the devil but rest on the Lord, the Divine being.

I said, why are you growing all of these mandrake plants?""Calm down," said Armand. "She can't understand you.""She can when she wants to.""Some people call this plant the 'devil's candle,' because it glistens at night.""Is she the devil?"The Cashier looked angry.