Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me - he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

Bill Johnson

The devil considers all misplaced trust as devil worship, for he hides himself in its shadows.

Bill Johnson

Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!

Bill Johnson

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.

Diana Gabaldon

If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.

Eazy-E

Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I'm kin to the devil.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be better for us, if he did come in that shape! The trouble is the devil never does come in that shape. He comes by chance, with unregistered signals, and in all sorts of counterfeit presentiments.

Barry Sanders

See God gave us the talent, but the devil make us famous.

Anthony Trollope

The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

Anthony Trollope

Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.

Diana Wynne Jones

Can't you just keep your big mouth shut?" Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. "How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up!" "Oh, you flatter me, Brian," Chrestomanci said.

Desiderius Erasmus

'Tis an easier matter to raise the devil than to lay him.

Billy Sunday

If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch

Benjamin Haydon

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.

Charlotte Bronte

Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.

Was this harder than I imagined? Yes. I guess the devil was in the details. But they say that nothing that's any good ever comes easy. Now we look forward to Oct. 8, 2007, when our fans will come to Newark and watch the Devils play in a world-class setting.

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

We're really appreciative that the Devil Rays are able to help us out in our time of need.

Busta Rhymes

I never knew that I would see the day that I would meet the devil himself.

Branch Rickey

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

Charles Olson

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

Elias Hicks

You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you,

We live in a time when there dawns upon us a realization that the people on the other side of the mountain are not made up exclusively of redheaded devils responsible for all the evil on this side of the mountain

Elbert Hubbard

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Eduardo Galeano

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

Ben Jonson

The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.

Coco Chanel

I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.

The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.