#devil

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other. ↗

— Richard Savage

#anger #array #devil #each #him

The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there were no God. Before there can be a hole in a uniform, there must be a uniform; before there is death, there must be life; before there is error, there must be truth; before there is a crime, there must be liberty and law; before there is a war, there must be peace; before there is a devil, there must be a God, rebellion against whom made the devil. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#evil #god #goodness #the-devil #death

When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? ↗

— William Blake

#god #religion #tyger #experience

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#devil #man #life

Near below peak of mount Merbabu in Java, there is a forest known as the devil market. I had been there once. And when you are there, you will sense the crowd, voices of nothingness. Your mind will say it is just accustics effect of the nature, but your heart will tell you something totally different. ↗

— Toba Beta

#devil-market #java #merbabu #nothingness #voices

Do not be dismayed to learn there is a bit of the devil in you. There is a bit of the devil in us all. ↗

— Arthur Byron Cover

#human-nature #humanity #lucifer #satan #nature

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

#devil #religion #scorn #scripture #religion

But I do like Scotland. I like the miserable weather. I like the miserable people, the fatalism, the negativity, the violence that's always just below the surface. And I like the way you deal with religion. One century you're up to your lugs in it, the next you're trading the whole apparatus in for Sunday superstores. Praise the Lord and thrash the bairns. Ask and ye shall have the door shut in your face. Blessed are they that shop on the Sabbath, for they shall get the best bargains. Oh yes, this is a very fine country. ↗

— James W. Robertson

#religion

Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The contest, for sure, has with [sic] own laws (so that after God and the Devil 'tackle a guy, they don't kick him in the head'), but each side is not above cheating—with God breaking the rules occasionally by throwing in 'a miracle'. Strangely, Mailer doesn’t mention Jesus in this agonising analogy, but then the notion of the 'super-sub' may be an image too far even for him. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#book-review #devil #god #jesus #miracles

Denn ohne Religion, ohne theologische Bindung kann die Literatur das Göttliche umschreiben schaffen, nicht aber ohne die diabolische Beschreibung der menschlichen Leidenschaften und den umenschlichen Schicksals. Ohne das Himmelreich, ohne Phantasie und Schönheit kann ein politische Regime regieren, nicht aber ohne die Verhängung von Höllenstrafen, nicht ohne einen „Teufel in Menschengestalt“ (Jude, Nigger, Kulturbolschewist, Trotzkist)… ↗

— Walter Mehring

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