"No man is a devil in his own mind."
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"We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil."
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"The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil."
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"Some devil with a pitchfork keep talkin' like he know me. I stood before an angel as he told me bout the glory."
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"Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commits acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them."
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"We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives."
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"I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause."
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"It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool."
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"The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels."
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"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun."
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"Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation."
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"A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth."
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"The devil is God's ape!"
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"Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages."
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"All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word."
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"God gushed me out his nuts, the devil swallowed me up and I burnt a hole in his guts"
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"Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil."
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"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."
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"Christ heals with more ease than any other. Christ makes the devil go out with a word (Mark 9:25). Nay, he can cure with a look: Christ's look melted Peter into repentance; it was a healing look. If Christ doth but cast a look upon the soul he can recover it. Therefore David prays to have a look from God, 'Look Thou upon me, and be merciful unto me' (Psalm 119:132)."
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"It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them."
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