"God is good, there is no devil but fear."
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"I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me."
"You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you."
"The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious."
"The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see."
"All of a sudden I found myself doing things like 'Robot Monster' and 'Cat-Women of the Moon,' and I didn't know what the devil was going on. But if you're going to do areally bad movie, at least you do one that is at the top of the all-time bad-movie list."
"For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day."
"They say that God is in the details. Then again, they also say that the Devil is in the details. Boy, talk about awkward."
"The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride."
"And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil."
"If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it."
"Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine."
"I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money."
"The Devil's out of fashion."
"God gave humans the truth, and the devil came and he said, 'Let's give it a name and call it religion.'"
"I called out to God, but the devil keeps answering."
"Daydreams are the delusions of the devil."
"It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him."
"3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is an unfortunate mistake of the devil. But if it repents, it will be saved!"
"Fear arises from the weakness of the flesh over which the devil has power."