“Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”
Source: The Crucible
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“I like ejaculatory prayer; it reaches heaven before the devil can get a shot at it.”
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“Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.”
Source: Clockwork Angel

“When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register. ”

The Cause of Death
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On October 27, 1553, Michael Servetus was burned at the stake in Geneva, Switzerland. Guillaume Farel —the executioner and vicar of John Calvin— warned the onlookers with these words. Awake! magazine, May 2006; Michael Servetus—A Solitary Quest for the Truth.

Statement while being confined to residence at Coburg, as quoted in History of the Christian Church, (1910) http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc7.ii.ix.vii.html by Philip Schaff, Vol. VII : Modern Christianity : The German Reformation, § 123. Luther at the Coburg; though it mentions Muhammad, this remark might actually be directed at those responsible for his confinement, as he makes allusions to dwelling in the "empire of birds" and his location as a "Sinai" and regularly uses other uncomplimentary comparisons of those involved in suppressing his ideas to figures unpopular to himself and his contemporaries.