Quotes about devil
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“The Devil doesn't make us do anything.”

The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our actions create him. Conversely, when we behave with compassion, generosity, and grace, we create God in the world."
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

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“And to the Devill of hell condemne this mein3e;
For quhy sic reformatioune, as I weine
Into Scotland was never hard nor seine.”

David Lindsay (1490–1554) Scottish noble and poet

Source: Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, Lines 3720-3722

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“I don’t think the devil is scared of the adhan as much as I do, Because the adhan is Always waking me up from my dreams with you”

Suraj Sani (1996) Nigerian writer, Spoken word artist

Quotes from Confessions (Spoken word)

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“We are a society of apostolic life, so there’s going to be a common life … there must be fraternal life. If there’s no fraternal life, priests become extremely susceptible to the wiles and snares of the devil.”

Antony Sumich (1964) New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach

Traditionalist order sees chance to come to NZ https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2016/05/12/traditionalist-order-sees-chance-come-nz/ (May 12, 2016)

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“When a devil, but also a saint, laughs about your poetry, you laugh about his ignorance!”

Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet

Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.

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“If hell were raked with a fine tooth comb it is exceedingly doubtful whether any such material could be found there as inhabit this village; and should the devil seek a substitute for hell Jonesboro would qualify.”

William G. Brownlow (1805–1877) American newspaper editor, minister, and politician (1805-1877)

Whig. 1847:12:03, 1845:1845:09:03. Reprinted in That D----d Brownlow by Steve Humphrey. Appalachian Consortium Press, 1978. Boone, North Carolina.
Jonesboro Whig (1840 to 1949)

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“The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once.”

Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss poet

No. 345
In William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, sc. 1, Falstaff says that Mistress Ford's husband has "the finest mad devil of jealousy in him".
Aphorisms on Man (1788)

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“In Black Magic, the Devil means the employment of the Grand Magical Agent for a wicked purpose by a perverted Will.”

Eliphas Levi (1810–1875) French writer

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Source: The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum, Eliphas Levi, Translated by W. Wynn Westcott, London, George Redway, 1896, p. 60.

“Now there was sophistry. A mage was a perilous beast, but a mage who was also a logician and a theologian was deadly enough to outface the devil himself.”

Judith Tarr (1955) American fantasy writer, historian

Source: Ars Magica (1989), Chapter 19 (p. 234)

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“A complete person, if necessary, knows as to show his essence as an innocent angel or a dangerous devil.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Una persona completa, all'occorrenza, sa mostrare la sua essenza di innocente angelo o pericoloso diavolo.
Source: prevale.net

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“Who the devil will coalesce with people that don't coalesce with themselves.”

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792–1878) leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister on two occasions

Source: Reply to a suggestion by Thomas Moore that George Canning might join with the Whigs to pass Catholic emancipation, quoted in Paul Scherer, Lord John Russell: A Biography (1999), p. 24

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“The Devil is an echo
Of search unsatisfied.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Fortunatus in Act I, sc. iii; p. 35.

“You know the Devil is your enemy but you do not deal with him as such.”

Ibrahim ibn Adham (718–776) ascetic Sufi saint

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 28

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“[T]he devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Vol. III, John XV: 22–27, p. 123
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. John (1865–1873)

“I heard that you don't do favors for the mob but do you treat the devil the same?”

Comedic response to CW network questioning about Italian heritage at festival booth.
Source: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9556267/bio?item=nq0320448#quotes