|
69da41f
|
Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.
|
|
humor
inspirational
satan
|
Mikhail Bulgakov |
|
db30731
|
Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n.
|
|
rebellion
inspirational
revolt
satan
lucifer
|
John Milton |
|
02ef941
|
Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.
|
|
satan
vampire
|
Anne Rice |
|
d90b4fd
|
"Suppose neutral angels were able to talk, Yahweh and Lucifer - God and Satan, to use their popular titles - into settling out of court. What would be the terms of the compromise? Specifically, how would they divide the assets of their early kingdom?
|
|
satan
|
Tom Robbins |
|
05e2e68
|
"When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as on the fast track for beatification, and thus to qualify her for eventual sainthood, the Vatican felt obliged to solicit my testimony and I thus spent several hours in a closed hearing room with a priest, a deacon, and a monsignor, no doubt making their day as I told off, as from a rosary, the frightful faults and crimes of the departed fanatic. In the course of this, I discovered that the pope during his tenure had surreptitiously abolished the famous office of "Devil's Advocate," in order to fast-track still more of his many candidates for canonization. I can thus claim to be the only living person to have represented the Devil ."
|
|
religion
beatification
canonisation
deacons
devil-s-advocate
fanatacism
monsignors
mother-teresa
pope
pope-john-paul-ii
priests
pro-bono
satan
testimony
sainthood
vatican
devil
|
Christopher Hitchens |
|
bac52c7
|
Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. He is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may learn not to let themselves be whipped, to strip himself of every scruple in the name of a higher scrupulousness, and to challenge the hatred of mankind because of his love for it--an abstract and geometric love.
|
|
satan
|
Arthur Koestler |
|
8a62b1d
|
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
|
|
christianity
god
philosophy
satan
jesus-christ
|
Fulton J. Sheen |
|
c6e2900
|
Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for many law enforcement officers to accept. They are paid to uphold the penal code, not the Ten Commandments ... The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don't like that statement, but few can argue with it.
|
|
jesus
religion
god
satanism
separation-of-church-and-state
satan
mohammed
constitution
zealots
|
Carl Sagan |
|
9e9928d
|
Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: 'I am Who am.' The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: 'I am who am not.' Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.
|
|
the-enemy
the-devil
satan
sin
|
Fulton J. Sheen |
|
82b4eab
|
"Don't tell me from genetics. What've they got to do with it?" said Crowley. "Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you're going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he'll grow up to be a demon just because his dad _became_ one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me."
|
|
lamarckian-evolution
nature-vs-nurture
satan
genetics
|
Terry Pratchett |
|
3e70324
|
Oil they would buy from anyone. From Satan.
|
|
satan
oil
|
Christopher Buckley |
|
a617223
|
From the heart arise unknowable impulses as well as conscious feelings, moods, and wishes. The heart, too, has its reasons and is the center of perception and understanding. Finally, the heart is the seat of the will: it makes plans and comes to good decisions. Thus the heart is the central and unifying organ of our personal life. Our heart determines our personality, and is therefore not only the place where God dwells but also the place to which Satan directs his fiercest attacks. It is this heart that is the place of prayer. The prayer of the heart is a prayer that directs itself to God from the center of the person and thus affects the whole of our humanness.
|
|
the-heart
satan
|
Henri J.M. Nouwen |
|
74099ae
|
Also another time she had wakened in dead of night, thinking that something touched her, and when she looked she saw that a black scaly tail, tufted with flame at the end, like a fiend's, had switched across her and lay there burning the covers. And when she turned shrieking, to see what manner of thing lay beside her in the bed, she was at first reassured by sight of her husband's face, then saw, to her horror, that horns had risen, black and pointed, from his forehead. After that she screamed again and remembered nothing until Joseph was shaking her awake, and there were neither horns nor tail to be seen. Nor were the bedclothes scorched.
|
|
satan
devil
witchcraft
|
Evangeline Walton |
|
d24ecb2
|
I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly,' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he was. I always think of him as a rather handsome gentleman.
|
|
satan
|
L.M. Montgomery |
|
f827043
|
But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children would be a daily visual reminder of what a plantation white man could do to a plantation black woman whenever he wanted, nor could he count the black men whom he had made fear his blackjack as they would fear Satan himself, making each of them a lifetime enemy of all white people.
|
|
hatred
rape
racism
fear
degrade
plantations
southern
satan
crime
oppression
|
James Lee Burke |
|
141cf71
|
This unhoused, exiled Satan was perhaps the heavenly patron of all exiles, all unhoused people, all those who were torn from their place and left floating, half-this, half-that, denied the rooted person's comforting, defining sense of having solid ground beneath their feet.
|
|
homelessness
rootedness
satan
immigrants
|
Salman Rushdie |
|
e21abbf
|
"In answer to modern requests for signs and wonders, Our Lord might say, 'You repeat Satan's temptation, whenever you admire the wonders of science, and forget that I am the Author of the Universe and its science. Your scientists are the proofreaders, but not the authors of the Book of Nature; they can see and examine My handiwork, but they cannot create one atom themselves. You would tempt Me to prove Myself omnipotent by meaningless tests...You tempt Me after you have willfully destroyed your own cities with bombs by shrieking out, "Why does God not stop this war?" You tempt Me, saying that I have no power, unless I show it at your beck and call. This, if you remember, is exactly how Satan tempted Me in the desert. I have never had many followers on the lofty heights of Divine truth, I know; for instance, I have hardly had the intelligentsia. I refuse to perform stunts to win them, for they would not really be won that way. It is only when I am seen on the Cross that I really draw men to Myself; it is by sacrifice, and not by marvels, that I must make My appeal. I must win followers not with test tubes, but with My blood; not with material power, but with love; not with celestial fireworks, but with the right use of reason and free will."
|
|
temptation
christianity
jesus
satan
miracles
|
Fulton J. Sheen |
|
cf3d664
|
How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized.
|
|
god
satan
response
|
Stormie Omartian |
|
ed9ef25
|
"I, for example, quiet plainly and simply insist upon annihilation for myself. "No," they say, "you must go on living, for without you there would be nothing. If everything on earth were reasonable, nothing would ever happen. Without you there would be no events, and it is necessary that there should be events." Well, and so on I drudge with unwilling heart so that there be events, and bring about unreason by command. People think is something serious, all there unquestionable intelligence notwithstanding. There lies there tragedy. Well, and they suffer, of course, but ... al the same they live, they live in reality, not in fantasy; for suffering is also life. Without suffering what pleasure would there be in it? Everything would turn into one single, endless church service: much holy soaring, but rather boring. Well, and I? I suffer, but even so I do not live. I am the "x" in an indeterminate equation. I am one of life's ghosts, who has lost all the ends and the beginnings, and even at last forgotten what to call myself. You are laughing . . . No, you are not laughing, you are angry again. You are eternally angry, you would like there to be nothing but intelligence, but I will tell you again that I would renounce all this empyrean existence, all these honours and ranks just in order to be able to take fleshy form in the person of a seven-pood merchant's wife and set up candles to God in church. 'So, you don't believe in God either?' Ivan said, smiling with hatred. 'Well, how can I explain it to you, if you are serious, that is . . . ' 'Does God exist or not?' Ivan barked, again with ferocious insistence. 'Ah, so you are serious? My dear little dove, I swear to God I do not know, "
|
|
ivan-karamazov
hallucination
satan
demon
|
Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
|
6b12bcb
|
Satan fell by the force of gravity.
|
|
satan
pride
sin
|
G. K. Chesterton |
|
219d6d1
|
Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.
|
|
satan
sin
|
Susan Cooper |
|
8eb2799
|
...but there were four things I taught Walter to consider: 1) That it was Cain who built the first City, 2) That there is a true Science in the World called Scientia Umbrarum which, as to the publick teaching of it, has been suppressed but which the proper Artificer must comprehend, 3) That Architecture aims at Eternity and must contain the Eternal Powers: not only our Altars and Sacrifices, but the Forms of our Temples, must be mysticall, 4) That the miseries (If the present Life, and the Barbarities of Mankind, the fatall disadvantages we are all under and the Hazard we run of being eternally Undone, lead the True Architect not to Harmony or to Rationall Beauty but to quite another Game. Why, do we not believe the very Infants to be the Heirs of Hell and Children of the Devil as soon as they are disclos'd to the World? I declare that I build my Churches firmly on this Dunghil Earth and with a full Conception of Degenerated Nature. I have only room to add: there is a mad-drunken Catch, Hey ho! The Devil is dead! If that be true, I have been in the wrong Suit all my Life.
|
|
occult
satan
devil
|
Peter Ackroyd |
|
d5ed8cd
|
Lo mas seguro es que satan no sea nada mas que un instrumento del senor, el encargado de llevar a cabo los trabajos sucios que dios no puede firmar con su nombre.
|
|
satan
|
José Saramago |
|
d9ea5b9
|
one day Satan himself visits, along with his great-grandmother--who is, not surprisingly, a total fucking bitch.
|
|
satan
|
David Rakoff |
|
01bf9f8
|
Satan's chief device of temptation is to attack the truth of God.
|
|
temptation
christianity
satan
|
R.C. Sproul |
|
1fb2c16
|
I do not believe any power can possess the mind of a man or woman... I believe in God-given free will, you see. I think nothing is forced on us, except by other people like ourselves. I think our choices are our own.
|
|
free-will
choice
satan
|
Susan Cooper |