Tom Waits Quotes

God is a good God, and the Devil is a bad Devil.

God may have created the world in six days, but while he was resting on the seventh, Beelzebub popped up and did this place.

God created the world, but it is the devil who keeps it going.

Watch for the devil. When there’s a god, there’s always a legion of devils.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

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

Since the beginning of time, evil has try to capture the magic of the Hardy Compound and the nucleus of its magic, Excalibur.

If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.

The worshiper is the father of the gods.

There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.

If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.

If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.

In the beginning, the head of the Gods called a council of the Gods; and they came together and concocted a plan to create the world and people it.

I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.

God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.

The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.

The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation. He is 'The Devil' of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection... He is therefore Life, and Love.

To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask.