Bertrand Russell Quotes

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

You know what else that settles then tonight. This hue and cry and controversy that has been spawned by the devil to try and bring dissention within the body of Christ that we are gods. I am a little god.

Some devil with a pitchfork keep talkin' like he know me. I stood before an angel as he told me bout the glory.

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.

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.

Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?

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

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.

[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.

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

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.

Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.

Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.

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.

Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.

I'm a lucky person. Thank God. And I'm conflicted. Thank God.

There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

No matter what the problem, a miracle can solve it. Remember to ask for one.

It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.

The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

Are you grown an atheist? Will you turn your body, Which is the goodly palace of the soul, To the soul's slaughter-house? Oh, the curse' d devil, Which doth present us with all other sins Thrice-candied o'er.