Pope John Paul II Quotes

Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.

It is not God but the Devil who is in charge of the international situation and those who are working for God in it are poor servants if all they do is worship God and neglect their duty to cincumvent the Devil.

I called out to God, but the devil keeps answering.

Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.

There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.

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.

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.

God is working, and obviously, the devil is trying to work, too, but it will not happen.

I'm obsessed with 666 because the best way to fight your enemy is to know him, and of course my enemy is the devil, as it should be every sensible man's enemy.

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

The presence of the devil is on the first page of the Bible, and the Bible ends as well with the presence of the devil, with the victory of God over the devil.

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.

The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.

You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?

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

That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.

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

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.

The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.

The devil wanders into my soul.

If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

The battle against good and evil is raging now! Look at your television programming and movie advertisements presenting the occult…the demonic…the satanic…the practice of witchcraft and sorcery in popular books…the open hostility toward Christianity and the revival of anti-Semitism. The fight is on for the hearts and minds of our children in ours homes, our schools, our universities, and our society.

God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy. Why is it thatthis has not induced any scholar to develop a theory of the diabolical genre?