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So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
— Laurence Sterne
Black flies, no-see-ums, deer flies, gnats and mosquitoes were instituted by the devil to force people to live in cities where he could get at them better. If it weren't for them everybody would live in the bush and he would be out of work. It was a rather successful invention.
— Ernest Hemingway
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
— St. Jerome
Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The devil ought not to be in our line of vision but in our shadow.
— Leonard Sweet
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
— Milan Kundera
Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.
— JC Ryle
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
— Dorothy Sayers
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
— Billy Sunday
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
— Billy Sunday
No man can concentrate his attention upon evil, or even upon the idea of evil, and remain unaffected. To be more against the devil than for God is exceedingly dangerous.
— Aldous Huxley
Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.
— Ellen White