Horace Mann Quotes

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

Satan is busily at work in our crowded cities.

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

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

Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.

Sin and the devil will always find helpers in our hearts.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

The Devil may also make use of morality.

If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."

When the devil drives, needs must.

The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.

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 had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew; he hath now access to your fancy to stir up lustful thoughts and desires, so that when you should think of your calling, of your God, or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit to be named. If the devil here get in a foot, he will not easily be got out.

The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.

We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils.

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

Never give the devil a ride! He will always want to drive!

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.