Karin Fossum Quotes

I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.

If you believe in the Devil, it means that you are already in his grip.

The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.

You don’t knock on the devil’s door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.

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.

Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.

Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.

He who sups with the devil has need of a long spoon

Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don't really know.

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Fear comes by hearing and a hearing by the word of the devil. The lies of Satan.

Every time I meet someone, they talk about 'Shaitan.'

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that have been given out for miracles, according as he shall see what benefits can accrue by men's belief, to those that pretend, or countenance them, and thereby conjecture whether they be miracles or lies.

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

There doesn't need to be a God for me. There's something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike. I don't feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don't really know if it's better to just not believe in anything, either.

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.

The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.