La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."
("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")
Tags: deception devil existence reality ruse ruses sleight-of-hand tricks
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
Martin LutherTags: devil evil christianity religion
I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"
And he says,
How much time do you want?
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.
Graham GreeneI would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
Ludwig FeuerbachTags: inspirational truth devil character falsehood angel
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 LutherTags: devil christianity scripture religion scorn
The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.
Thomas MooreI have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.
I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow.
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: devil writing evil grace on-fiction fiction storytelling
My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.
Robert Louis StevensonTags: devil beast-within
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