Billy Graham Quotes

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter.

God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine.

In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee.

It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God.

The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful quality, in the quality of fierceness and wrath, destruction or perdition.

If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?

Ministers of God's choosing are engaged in a great work. They are warring not merely against men, but Satan and his angels.

The whole world of mankind is divided into these two sorts, those that are God's visible people; and those that are of the visible kingdom of Satan.

One of my main intentions was to destroy the legend of the greatness of evil, of the demonic force.

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

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.

God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.

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.

I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.

There’s another force that wants to keep us from going to Washington DC. It is the devil.

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

Satan has set his sights on the United States of America. If you were Satan who would you attack?

Satan’s successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.