A revival does two things. First it returns the Church from her backsliding and second it causes the conversion of men and women and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.
Telephone n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.
I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt if they were able to formulate a religion they would depict the Devil in human form.
Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.
He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
You shall always find what you created in your mind for instance a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves and the last which dies.
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy wasteful blundering low and horribly cruel work of nature!
Dance vaudeville drama movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.
If you make money your god it will plague you like the devil.