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Charlie whistled "Amazing Grace" as he drove. It was all I could do not to whip my head around and snap, Are you kidding me? Couldn't he pick something more appropriate, like "Shout at the Devil" or "Don't fear the Reaper"? Some people had no sense of the proper music for a kidnapping.

Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.

Charlie Studd has written me a delightful letter... He thinks the Chinese language was invented by the devil to prevent the Chinese from ever hearing the Gospel properly.

Christmas tree stands are the work of the devil and they want you dead.

Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as  the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.

Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.

Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its place. Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know that he but heweth and polisheth stones, all this time, for the new Jerusalem.

Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.

Come, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil.

Complaint is a prayer to the devil.

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).

Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!

Complaints are prayers to the devil.

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.

Consider that the devil doesn't sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.

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.

Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile

Cows are the Devil's handmaidens.

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

Death is not regarded as a natural affair by primitive man. Death is believed to be due to the intervention of some malevolent or at least not well disposed power. Normally it should not take place. So we have all through history crude explanations of death, as e.g., the influence of the serpent, the devil, sin.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.

Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.

Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.

Devil, you've got me all in a whirl. I'm wise to your game.

Devils don't come from hell beneath us, they come from the sky.

Devil wanted to play cricket. So Ravindra Jadeja was born.

Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.

Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.

Diamanda Galás, the avant-weird performance artist... 'The devil's wife,' someone calls her. Faith No More loves Diamanda Galás.

Doesn't the devil live forever; who ever heard that the devil was dead? Did you ever see any person wearing mourning for the devil?

Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

Don't blame me. The devil made me do it, and the Lord said you have to forgive.

Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.

Don't fret, Grannie. We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her

does you costume involve leather?" she'd asked. and he'd said, "Actually, yeah, it might." it really did. it involved a leather dog collar, leather pants and a leash, and the leash was held by Ysandre, who was in skintight red rubber, from neck to knee high boots. she'd topped it off with a pair of devil horns and a red tridant. she'd made Shane her dog, complete with furry dog mask. ***"Breathe," Myrnin said. "I'm not much for it myself, but i hear it's quite good for humans."***

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Do the devils lie? No; for then even hell could not subsist.

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.

Doubt in love is the Devil in the paradise!

"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up.