The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.

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

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.

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

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

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

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.

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

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?‘

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

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

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

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

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

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

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

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

In retrospect, I do think it’s fair to say that we were overly idealistic and focused on more of the good parts of what connecting people and giving people a voice can bring.

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

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

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

‚You are no saint,‘ says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

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

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.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

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

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.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

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

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

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

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

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

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

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.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

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

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

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.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

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

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

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.