James Russell Lowell Quotes

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

Satan works through human agents.

You keep knocking on the devil's door long enough and sooner or later someone's gonna answer you.

Never forget that the devil is there 24/7 too. He's very, very busy.

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

Satan is busily at work in our crowded cities.

Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.

Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.

Sin and the devil will always find helpers in our hearts.

But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

The devil wanders into my soul.

So now the devil's in my soul.

Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

He knockin' on the door, let the devil in.

When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.

It is said that there are three sources of evil, "the world, the flesh, and the Devil"; but the world and the flesh would be innocent were it not for the Devil.

At birth the Devil touched my tongue.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

When the devil drives, needs must.

The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which “God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.