Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes

If someone asked, 'Would you prefer to be thought of as St. Michael as opposed to the devil,' I might say St. Michael. But that choice is not really there, because you are in an environment in which you have natural predators and enemies.

I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.

The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.

A lot of people don't believe there's evil. If there's good in this world, then you're being intellectually dishonest, if you believe there's a good power, you've also got to believe there's an evil power, too. There are physical laws that are in place.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

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

Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don't really know.

At the end of the day, one of the biggest misconceptions of Ghost is that it's just about the devil. It's always been about mankind and living.

He's like a bizarro me. One of us is working for good, and the other is Kris Kobach.

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.

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

God is a good God, and the Devil is a bad Devil.

The battle against the Devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the Devil is still alive and active in the world.

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

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.

Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?

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.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

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?

God created the world, but it is the devil who keeps it going.

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

The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individual, between unworhtiness and worth, between the earthly and the higher life, between negation and God-like. Mankind has the choice to make. There are only two poles, and there is no middle way.