The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.
Men are not born saints with special gifts and privileges. They fight against the world, the flesh and the devil, and as they conquer, the spirit of Jesus begins to shine through with more clarity.
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.
One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!
The devil reigns in me more than in any man I can think of.
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.
At Vienna, one of the audience affirmed publicly that my performance was not surprising, for he had distinctly seen, while I was playing my variations, the devil at my elbow, directing my arm and guiding my bow. My resemblance to the devil was a proof of my origin.
One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.
I was scared of the devil starting around age nine. Before that, I was gathering every family member in the living room, slipping a shirt over my robe so the bottom hung like a skirt and performing Gloria Estefan songs with feverish intensity.
A church debt is the devil's salary.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn't tolerate myself.
What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.