The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can’t fool the neighbors.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

I like to talk to myself ahead of time so when temptation comes, I’ve already made up my mind that I have the victory.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

This thing that I do with caring about the message in my music, it’s not separate from my work as a commercial artist; they’re totally one and the same. I’m always going to be thinking about what my voice means.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

If Sunday is the Lord’s day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

By that sin fell the angels.

The devil ain’t got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil’s a good friend, too… because when you don’t know him, that’s the time he can mosh you down.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Nothing can affect my voice, it’s so bad.

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

I’m very active on social media and see the huge impact it has on engaging with fans and being able to have a voice.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

I just wanted to be a songwriter. I did really not like the sound of my own voice.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.