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"Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake the sleepers. ‘But it won’t - that’s the devil,’ he added in the same undertone."
"Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest"
"The Messenger has seen God. He was with Allah and was given divine patience with the devil. He is willing to wait for Allah to deal with this devil. Well, sir, the rest of us Black Muslims have not seen God, we don't have this gift of divine patience with the devil. The younger Black Muslims want to see some action."
"Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself."
"Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift."
"Religious contention is the devil's harvest."
"Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump."
"If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up."
"A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction"
"The devil's in most people. Not me, mind you, but most."
"After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers."
"Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested."
"The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward."
"Above all else , the devil can not stand to be mocked."
"Man and woman become a devil to each other when they do not separate their spiritual paths, for the nature of created beings is always the nature of differentiation."
"Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil."
"I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary's Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening."
"At birth the Devil touched my tongue."
"Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil."
"The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin."
