I am trying now to be entirely honest. I did actually comfort in the thought that the Devil had, on Strawless Common, defeated God. I much preferred that thought to the thought that God hadn’t...

I want to believe there’s a God. Because I sure as hell know there’s a devil.

The love and compassion of Jesus christ is not understood and felt by devils.

I burned by bridges so the devil couldn’t follow me.

The good news is there’s no devil. The bad news is there’s no heaven. There’s nothing.

If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil’s most brilliant move and science, God’s.

Next I prayed to Allah, whose ears are deaf; then did I beseech his fallen twin, the Devil Hornprick, who sits upon his thorn of fire, gloating upon his constellations and counting his bloody seeds....

WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

Devil does not buy our empty soul. He waits for us to selling off that. (Diable n’achète notre me vide. – Il attend qu’on la solde.)

Vita ya dhambi hupiganwa katika uwanja wa akili na katika uwanja wa mwili kati ya Shetani na Mungu. Hutumia silaha kuu ya uongo na silaha kuu ya ukweli. Mungu anataka tuujue ukweli. Shetani anataka tuujue...

I look him in the eye every day.

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must havethe stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthlessfurnace of this world. To make injustice the onlymeasure of our attention...

You can’t expect devil to show you the path that leads to Heaven.

El principio de la ciencia es saber que ignoramos. El mundo, que es el lugar donde estamos; la carne, que es lo que somos; el Diablo, que es aquello que deseamos: los tres, en un...

What?’ He cried, darting at him a look of fury: ‘Dare you still implore the Eternal’s mercy? Would you feign penitence, and again act an Hypocrite’s part? Villain, resign your hopes of pardon. Thus I...

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.

≫Du ved jo, hvad man siger: Når djævelen danser, skriger de i Himlen.≪ Hun lænede sig frem mod ham og tilføjede hviskende: ≫Af grin.≪

There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find

It’s true; most souls come here in whatever clothing they died in, truly unfortunate for the people who died naked. Of course, it’s really worse for us than them. Most people don’t look good without...

According to this account the promise of the devil was fulfilled to the very letter, Adam and Eve did not die, and they did become as gods, knowing good and evil

Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.

karmic reassignment”) manages to fall slightly below the level of those undergraduate talk sessions. The Manichean stand-off leads Mailer, in closing, to speculate on what God might desire politically and to say: ‘In different times,...

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

But I do like Scotland. I like the miserable weather. I like the miserable people, the fatalism, the negativity, the violence that’s always just below the surface. And I like the way you deal with...

Devil must really hate me a lot because I consistently refuse to give him an opportunity to win over my soul.

We don’t know the Devil’s side of the story, because God wrote all the books.

The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!

Devil has to offer many diabolical grimaces: One of these caricatures is prejudice, it stirs up hatred.

It was your covenant with the devil to exchange your soul for money and fame, so i won’t be sorry for your damn f***ing soul, and the devil gat no time to refund what you...

Não aprendeste nada, vai-te, dissera o Pastor, e quiçá quisesse dizer que ele não aprendera a defender a vida.

God saves – but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take it on faith that you will receive later. Whereas women...

He didn’t care if I hated him, only that I did as I was told.

A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil

Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

But life, they said, means life. Dying inside.The Devil was evil, mad, but I was the Devil’s wifewhich made me worse. I howled in my cell.If the Devil is gone then how could this be...

The Devil’s out of fashion.

…The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patient and ‘saintlike’ to their children. They should truly love their children. And the children will share this...

Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which my God is clothed; let me be following the devil at the same...

Increase Mather, President of Harvard University, in his treatise on Remarkable Providences, insists that the smell of herbs alarms the Devil and that medicine expels him. Such beliefs have probably even now not wholly disappeared...

God is an idea, the devil is us.

No one was meant to see hell before they got there. No one should have to live with the devil. So many homilies on faith were ruined once you no longer required it for belief.

Nobody is responsible for your sorrows and poverty, not even the devil. It is the work of the enemies of time that lives in some men, and their names are, ‘Laziness and Procrastination’.

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

Be there a picnic for the devil,an orgy for the satyr,and a wedding for the bride.

Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more, One task more declined, one more footpath untrod,One more devils’-triumph and sorrow for angels, One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!

If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land. They were not allowed to spare trembling and white-haired age, nor dimpled babes...

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.

Baada ya Adam na Hawa kutenda dhambi katika bustani ya Edeni, kila mtu anayezaliwa anazaliwa katika dhambi. Kwa hiyo dhambi hutokana na maisha, na maisha hutokana na dhambi.