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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Evil'

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You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!
Jerry Lee Lewis, American Musician (1935-  )
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Martin Luther, German Leader (1483-1546)
If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
Martin Luther, German Leader (1483-1546)
I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.
Ken MacLeod, Scottish Writer (1954-  )
We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
Norman Mailer, American Novelist (1923-2007)
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
Norman Mailer, American Novelist (1923-2007)
Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.
Robert Mapplethorpe, American Photographer (1946-1989)
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
Robert Mapplethorpe, American Photographer (1946-1989)
If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
Bob Marley, Musician (1945-1981)
When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.
Marc Maron, American Entertainer (1963-  )
Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
Marc Maron, American Entertainer (1963-  )
In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
Don Marquis, American Poet (1878-1937)
A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
Walter Martin, American Clergyman (1928-1989)
Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.
Eric Massa, American Politician (1959-  )
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken, American Writer (1880-1956)
Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
H. L. Mencken, American Writer (1880-1956)
There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
Sam Mendes, British Director (1965-  )
Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
Freddie Mercury, British Musician (1946-1991)
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
Dan Millman, American Author (1946-  )
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.
Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher (1533-1592)
 
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