Devil Quotes...

"If the devil doesn't exist and, therefore, man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness." - Feodor Dostoyevsky.

"Behind every rich man stands a devil, and behind every poor man two" - Swiss proverb

"Wherever God erects a house of prayer, the Devil always builds a chapel there; And ’twill be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.! - Daniel Defoe in ‘The True-Born Englishman’ (1701) pt. 1, l. 1.

"I love God: I have no time left In which to hate the devil." - Rabia al Basri

"When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil’s leavings." - Alexander Pope

"God rules in Heaven, and money on earth . Even the Devil dances for gold." - Swiss proverb

"I call'd the devil and he came, and with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, but really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, he talks quite glibly of church and state." - Heine.

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!" - Shakespeare in ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

"Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man." - Harry Segall,

"The concept that the One God combines unconditional love with unlimited vengeance is self-contradictory. To judge by what little material we have from the period, it appears that Christianity inherited a solution to this dilemma from one part of Judaism: the concept of a supernatural evil being called Satan, alternatively called the Devil, who coexists with God in an uneasy state of eternal battle.

"A spiritual location conventionally called “hell” in English (it may have a number of other names in other cultures) is supposed to be the spiritual realm in which the Devil and demons exist, and is often considered to be a counterpart to heaven. Its main characteristics are that it is a place of eternal fire, misery, and, in monotheist traditions, total absence of any influence of God. For non-monotheist traditions, such as Buddhism, the term “hells” is used in English to refer to an area in the spirit world in which living conditions are vastly poorer than in this world." - Donald Broadribb in 'The Mystical Chorus: Jung and the religious dimension'

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