"The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience."
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"An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty."
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"I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'"
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"If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse."
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"You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad."
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"To the devil with false modesty."
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"Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils."
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"As long as an angel is not annihilated, it is a devil."
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"The devil made you a slave. Your waitin' for the devil to come from the ground. Take a look around. Just look at the cross that the priest is holdin'. A beast, in sheep's clothin'. You are the prince of darkness. Hell born, demonic."
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"If the Devil is real, then God must be real, too."
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"If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it."
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"That's the temptation of the devil: "Turn stones into bread! Be relevant!""
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"Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels."
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"If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep."
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"Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil."
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"Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up."
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"[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work."
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"The devil won't stay where there is music."
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"It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them."
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"Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst."
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