Devil quotes

30 quotes

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Joel Osteen

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.

H. L. Mencken

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

William Shakespeare

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.

Billy Graham

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.

Hunter S. Thompson

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.

Joyce Meyer

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

William Shakespeare

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Keanu Reeves

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

Joyce Meyer

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

Joyce Meyer

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.

Bob Marley

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

Pope Francis

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

William Shakespeare

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Billy Graham

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

Winston Churchill

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.

Joyce Meyer

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

Martin Luther

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

C. S. Lewis

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

C. S. Lewis

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

Francis Bacon

‚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.

Charles Spurgeon

The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.

Stephen King

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.

Helen Keller

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

Voltaire

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Albert Schweitzer

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.

Martin Luther

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Albert Einstein

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.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Hosea Ballou