Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Personally, I prefer the dark side.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

Man has fallen victim to seduction since times immemorial.

The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

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.

You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.

The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.

The Devil may also make use of morality.

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

Evil is whatever distracts.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

What a bitter, bitter thing is the service of Satan, even in this world!

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

Evil changes everybody!