Fiorello H. La Guardia Quotes

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?

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.

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

The devil always has the better tunes!

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

The better day, the worse deed.

I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan.

Everybody has a sinful nature pulling them at every turn.

When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.

Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.