E. T. A. Hoffmann Quotes

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

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.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

The devil always has the better tunes!

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.

Unrestrained competition can drive people into actions that they would otherwise regret.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

It is not good practice to become intrigued by Satan and his mysteries. No good can come from getting close to evil.

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.

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

Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves - to the devil - because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds.

The devil's bride, Reason, that pretty whore, comes in and thinks she's wise, and what she says, what she thinks, is from the Holy Spirit, who can help us, then? Not judges, not doctors, no king or emperor, because reason is the Devil's greatest whore.

[Theodore Roosevelt] has sold himself to the devil and will live up to the bargain.

Satan has an agenda.