Quotes about devil

A collection of quotes on the topic of devil, god, man, doing.

Quotes about devil

“I know what good morals are,
but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils, trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996

World, Angels, Hell, Suicide

“Overcome the devils with a thing called love.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Love

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

Hell

“Diabolical forces are formidable. These forces are eternal, and they exist today. The fairy tale is true. The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow.”

Ed Warren (1926–2006) American paranormal investigator, demonologist, exorcist, ghost hunter

God, People

“Despite having all the names of the Devil in the scriptures, they are still considered holy.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and worshipping the devil. The devil doesn't exist. Satanism is about worshipping yourself, because you are responsible for your own good and evil.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Life, Evil

“wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it”

Bob Ross (1942–1995) American painter, art instructor, and television host

Source: The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29

“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

love, For women, Romantic, Love

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Source: The Duchess of Padua

Hell, World

“All the inspirations comes from God. Where did the devil gets his inspiration to disobey the command of his Creator?”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God

“As long as we have God and the devil in the scriptures, competitions will never cease to exist.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God

“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride… and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well… maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 20, Cassandra, Another story by Mrs. Clarke
Source: Invisible Monsters

Love

“I raise my glass to the Awful Truth,
Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth,
Except to say it isn't worth a dime,
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice,
And it's once for the Devil and once for Christ”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Truth, Youth, Christ

“Have courage and do not fear the assaults of the Devil. Remember this forever; it is a healthy sign if the devil shouts and roars around your conscience, since this shows that he is not inside your will.”

Padre Pio (1887–1968) Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic

Fear, Courage

“I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière — a real devil.”

Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French fashion designer

As quoted in Paris, Paris : Journey Into the City of Light‎ (2005) by David Downie, p. 93

Lovers

“Even a most evil man is better than the devil!”

Jan Hus (1369–1415) Czech linguist, religion writer, theologist, university educator and science writer

Source: A Companion to Jan Hus (2015), pp. 201-202; Jan Hus in Booklet against the Cook-priest in response to the rival priest who swore that Hus is worse than any devil.

Evil

“Real devils are the people who don't want to see God forgive the devil on judgment day.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Forgiveness, God, People

“The truth is that even the devil himself believes in the existence of God.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God, Truth

“Remember, when we jeer at the Devil and tell ourselves that he does not exist, that is when he is happiest.”

Gabriele Amorth (1925–2016) Italian Roman Catholic priest and exorcist

Source: "An Interview With Fr Gabriele Amorth - The Church's Leading Exorcist" (2001)

“The moon is red, sensing the future, it has dressed up for its gala, or the Devil has decorated it.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

Future, Sense

“I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Shoe

“Bedevil the devil and devil be dammed. I fear no devil and bow to no man.

- Adam Black”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Beyond the Highland Mist

Fear

“Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology… They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff… When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.”

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) Polish-born Jewish-American author

Nobel lecture as quoted in The Observer (17 December 1978) Variant: "They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff."

God, Children, Books, Family

“There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: Horns

Guy

“The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!”

Rowan Atkinson (1955) English actor, comedian, and screenwriter

Source: Blackadder II: Complete Series

Life

“You got to realize; you're the Devil as much as you're God.”

Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician

God

“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”

Ludwig Feuerbach book The Essence of Christianity

Source: The Essence of Christianity (1841)

Truth, Angels

“All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

Exercises, Tear

“The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

Misattributed

Way

“In particular, at this point also urge governing authorities and parents to rule well and to send their children to school. Point out how they are obliged to do so and what a damnable sin they commit if they do not, for thereby, as the worst enemies of God and humanity, they overthrow and lay waste both the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the world. Explain very clearly what kind of horrible damage they do when they do not help to train children as pastors, preachers, civil servants, etc., and tell them that God will punish them dreadfully for this. For in our day and age it is necessary to preach about these things. The extent to which parents and governing authorities are now sinning in these matters defies description. The devil, too, intends to do something horrible in all this.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

Foreword to the small catechismus, as quoted in the Preface, The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (2000) by Robert Kolb and Timothy J. Wengert, p. 19

God, Children, Age, World

“Tell your master that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.”

Martin Luther Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott

Psalm. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (translated by Frederic H. Hedge), Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). "On the 16th of April, 1521, Luther entered the imperial city [of Worms]... On his approach… the Elector's chancellor entreated him, in the name of his master, not to enter a town where his death was decided. The answer which Luther returned was simply this". Bunsen, Life of Luther

“For the gospel proclaims that God is with us now, actively fighting the forces which would make man captive. And it is the task of theology and the Church to know where God is at work so that we can join him in this fight against evil. In America we know where the evil is. We know that men are shot and lynched. We know that men are crammed into ghettos…. There is a constant battle between Christ and Satan, and it is going on now. If we make this message contemporaneous with our own life situation, what does Christ's defeat of Satan mean for us?… The demonic forces of racism are real for the black man. Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man "the devil." The white structure of this American society, personified in every racist, must be at least part of what the New Testament meant by the demonic forces.”

James H. Cone (1938–2018) American theologian

Source: Black Theology and Black Power (1969), pp. 39-41

Life, Men, God, Evil

“Dear rulers … I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. … If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men.”

Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation

letter to the German rulers (1524), as quoted in The History of Compulsory Education in New England, John William Perrin, 1896

Men, War, Children, People

“Tool is not Slayer. I went to art school. I spent three years in the military. There's more to me than throwing devil horns.”

Maynard James Keenan (1964) musician

Aidin Vaziri (January 2, 2009) "Maynard James Keenan: Hard rocker, winemaker. 5 Questions.", San Francisco Chronicle, p. E3.

School, Art

“When you examine your conscience (attention to what I am going to tell you) do not go too far; look at it as we look at the seashore from the top of the Alps or the Pyrenees, lightly, without going into details. If you do not see anything clearly and certainly wrong, go ahead and be at peace with your God. Mind this, I repeat, and do tell me how you are faring, because the devil could trick you and do you serious hard with his false doctrine and suggestions. This union produces peace of mind; then search for peace. Let nothing disturb you, be it good or bad.”

Francisco Palau (1811–1872) Beatified Spanish Discalced Carmelite friar and priest

Letter to Juana Gratia (1857)

God, Peace, Search, Falseness

“I frankly confess that, for myself, even if it could be, I should not want "free-will" to be given me, nor anything to be left in my own hands to enable me to endeavour after salvation; not merely because in face of so many dangers, and adversities and assaults of devils, I could not stand my ground; but because even were there no dangers. I should still be forced to labour with no guarantee of success.¦ But now that God has taken my salvation out of the control of my own will, and put it under the control of His, and promised to save me, not according to my working or running, but according to His own grace and mercy, I have the comfortable certainty that He is faithful and will not lie to me, and that He is also great and powerful, so that no devils or opposition can break Him or pluck me from Him. Furthermore, I have the comfortable certainty that I please God, not by reason of the merit of my works, but by reason of His merciful favour promised to me; so that, if I work too little, or badly, He does not impute it to me, but with fatherly compassion pardons me and makes me better. This is the glorying of all the saints in their God.”

Martin Luther book On the Bondage of the Will

Source: On the Bondage of the Will (1525), p. 313-314

God, Lie, Faith, Success

“I believe all the devils in hell are against us but we will triumph eventually because we have the Devil on our side.”

Madame Nhu (1924–2011) First lady of South Vietnam

In response to Diệm and Nhu, assassination in a coup d’état led by General Dương Văn Minh (Armed Forces Council) http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com/2013/10/05/

Hell

“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian author

The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

Thinking

“The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.”

Vincent de Paul (1581–1660) French priest, founder and saint

As quoted in A Year with the Saints (1891) by Anonymous, p. 47

“Let every man abide in the art or employment wherein he was called. And for their labor they may receive all necessary things, except money. … Let none of the brothers, wherever he may be or whithersoever he may go, carry or receive money or coin in any manner, or cause it to be received, either for clothing, or for books, or as the price of any labor, or indeed for any reason, except on account of the manifest necessity of the sick brothers. For we ought not to have more use and esteem of money and coin than of stones. And the devil seeks to blind those who desire or value it more than stones. Let us therefore take care lest after having left all things we lose the kingdom of heaven for such a trifle. And if we should chance to find money in any place, let us no more regard it than the dust we tread under our feet.”

Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order

First Rule of the Friars Minor

Money, Books, Art, Chance

“The fiend with all his comrades
Fell then from heaven above,
Through as long as three nights and days,
The angels from heaven into hell;
And them all the Lord transformed to devils,
Because they his deed and word
Would not revere.”

Cædmon (657–680) Ancient English poet

Creation: The Fall of the Rebel Angels (c. 670).

Angels, Hell, Night

“On the contrary, The demons are ever assailing us, according to 1 Peter 5:8: "Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about, seeking whom he may devour." Much more therefore do the good angels ever guard us”

Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica

Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
Context: Whether the angel guardian ever forsakes a man?... It would seem that the angel guardian sometimes forsakes the man whom he is appointed to guard... On the contrary, The demons are ever assailing us, according to 1 Peter 5:8: "Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about, seeking whom he may devour." Much more therefore do the good angels ever guard us... the guardianship of the angels is an effect of Divine providence in regard to man. Now it is evident that neither man, nor anything at all, is entirely withdrawn from the providence of God: for in as far as a thing participates being, so far is it subject to the providence that extends over all being.

I, q. 113, art. 6

Angels

“Before Adam there were Heaven and Hell. Sin or no sin, the devil was destined to go in hell no matter how hard he tried to believe in God.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

God, Hell

“I hold my peace, sir? no;
No, I will speak as liberal as the north;
Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,
All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

Men, Peace, Cry

“I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, although devil knows you’re all those things. I want you because there’s no one else like you, and I don’t ever want to start a day without seeing you.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

Beauty, Way

“Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony—Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”

Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front

Paul to the corpse of a French man he has just killed, Ch. 9
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
Context: I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony — Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?

Death, Fear, Forgiveness

“Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked.”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

Source: The Crucible

Sex

“And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.”

Martin Buber book I and Thou

Source: I and Thou

God, Decision

“God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil….”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964) Spanish writer

Life, God, World

“The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.”

Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) British writer

Source: Sodom Had No Bible (1971)

Joy

“The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

Source: The Pillars of the Earth

Men

“The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.”

Joanne Greenberg book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

People, Hell

“It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes.
This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

Smile, Soul, Evil, Heart

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“We are oft to blame in this, -
'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage,
and pios action we do sugar o'er
the devil himself.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet

Feeling, Hell, Dance

“I know there is a God, because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.”

Roméo Dallaire (1946) Canadian politician

Shake Hands with the Devil (2003)
Source: Shake Hands With The Devil

God

“Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

Source: The Crucible

God, Beauty

“And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

William Shakespeare Richard III

Source: Richard III

Clothes

“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

God, Thinking

“God made food; the devil the cooks.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

God, Food, Cooking

“When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

Hell, Dance

“Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk.”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

"Heartattack and Vine", Heartattack and Vine (1980).

God

“If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

Business

“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Hell

“Nothing sets a Christian so much out of the devil's reach than humility.”

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian

“We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

Reverend John Hale
Source: The Crucible (1953)

“A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Knowledge

“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

Love, Loss

“If you get down and you quarrel everyday, you're saying praises to the devil, I say.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

“Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.”

Kohta Hirano (1973) Japanese manga artist

Tear

“The Devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.”

John Henrik Clarke (1915–1998) American historian and writer

Life, Hell

“As one reads the scriptures of Christianity and Islam with a morally alert mind, one starts getting sick of the very sound of word ‘god’ which word is littered all over this literature like dead leaves in autumn. The deeds which are ascribed to or approved of by this God are quite often so cruel and obnoxious as to leave one wondering that if these are the doings of the Divine, what else is there which is left for the Devil to do.”

Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003) Indian activist

Defence of Hindu Society (1983)

God, Literature, Autumn, Reading

“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”
Humilitas homines sanctis angelis similes facit, et superbia ex angelis demones facit.

Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher

As quoted in Manipulus Florum (c. 1306), edited by Thomas Hibernicus, Superbia i cum uariis; also in Best Thoughts Of Best Thinkers: Amplified, Classified, Exemplified and Arranged as a Key to unlock the Literature of All Ages (1904) edited by Hialmer Day Gould and Edward Louis Hessenmueller
Disputed

Men, Angels, Change

“I make music to make you sick of fake music — hate music like devil worshippin' Satan music. So say your prayers — your Hail Mary's and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.”

Eminem (1972) American rapper and actor

"Devil's Night"
2000s, Devil's Night [with D12] (2001)

Hate, Music

“Devil and God are two sides of the same face.”

Dejan Stojanovic book The Creator

“The Devil and God,” p. 20
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “The Light-Bearer”

God

“Most shocking of all is alledging the Sacred Scriptures to favour this wicked practice. One would have thought none but infidel cavillers would endeavour to make them appear contrary to the plain dictates of natural light, and Conscience, in a matter of common Justice and Humanity; which they cannot be. Such worthy men, as referred to before, judged otherways; Mr. BAXTER declared, the Slave-Traders should be called Devils, rather than Christians; and that it is a heinous crime to buy them. But some say, "the practice was permitted to the Jews."”

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist

To which may be replied,
1770s, African Slavery in America (March 1775)

Men, Justice, Nature, Light

“When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.”

Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571) Florentine sculptor and goldsmith

http://books.google.com/books?id=j5kpAQAAIAAJ&q=%22When+the+poor+give+to+the+rich+the+devil+laughs%22&pg=PA64#v=onepage
Quando il povero dona al ricco il Diavolo se ne ride?
http://books.google.com/books?id=UfkHAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Quando+il+povero+dona+al+ricco+il+Diavolo+se+ne+ride%22&pg=PA59#v=onepage
Autobiography, vol. 1, ch. 4

“There are tough men but let me tell you I know from experience that really dangerous men have no pity. I'm not an unreasonable man but if you are a man and you take a liberty with me or cross me, then believe what I say: When it comes to retribution I have no pity or conscience. If that makes me the devil, then the devil I am, but I haven't got horns sticking out of my head or cloven hooves and a tail but if you're unlucky enough to have me come after you, beware cos hell's coming with me.”

Roy Shaw

Men, Hell

“When I die I don't want no part of heaven.
I would not do heaven's work well.
I pray the devil comes and takes me
To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell.”

Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter

"Youngstown"
Song lyrics, The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)

Hell, Parting

“Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry.”

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist

1770s, Common Sense (1776)

Children, World

“There's a devil inside me which cries, "You're not the son of the Carpenter, you're the son of King David! You are not a man, you are the Son of man whom Daniel prophesied." And still more: "The Son of God! And still more: God!"”

Nikos Kazantzakis book The Last Temptation of Christ

Source: The Last Temptation of Christ (1951), Ch. 10

God

“We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.”

John Chrysostom (349–407) important Early Church Father

Homilies on the Statues http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf109/Page_476.html, Homily XX

Heart

“Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 1, member 3.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

“I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God… or the Devil.”

Peter Ustinov (1921–2004) English actor, writer, and dramatist

Captain Vere
Billy Budd (1962)

God

“The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book The Last Temptation of Christ

Source: The Last Temptation of Christ (1951), Ch. 10

Angels, Chance

“[Servetus] is a wise man who doubtless thought he was teaching the truth, but he fell into the hands of the Devil.. . . Be careful the same thing does not happen to you!”

William Farel (1489–1565) French evangelist

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.

Truth