Devil's Influence Quotes

The devil's bride, Reason, that pretty whore, comes in and thinks she's wise, and what she says, what she thinks, is from the Holy Spirit, who can help us, then? Not judges, not doctors, no king or emperor, because reason is the Devil's greatest whore.

Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.

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.

One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

When the devil drives, needs must.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.

He knockin' on the door, let the devil in.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

I'm Catholic now, I'm Christian, watch out for them Devils.

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

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

At night when you're asleep, self-hatred's going to creep in. And you can blame it on the devil, the one who's bed you sleep in.

The devil reigns in me more than in any man I can think of.

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