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Whatever is born is the work of God. So whatever is plastered on, is the devil's work.... How unworthy of the Christian name it is to wear a fictitious face - you on whom simplicity in every form is enjoined! You, to whom lying with the tongue is not lawful, are lying in appearance.

I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.

I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

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

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.

The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens rather than from fellow Christians. At any rate, very few Indians were converted, and the Salem folk believed that the virgin forest was the Devil's last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand. To the best of their knowledge the American forest was the last place on earth that was not paying homage to God.

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.