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“The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.”
“Don't let the devil hear you, minister, The devil has such good hearing he doesn't need things to be spoken out loud, Well, god help us then, There's no point asking him for help either, he was bor...”
“Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche is the man who had such a long record of infamy the devil would be blue with envy.”
“I’d like to meet the devil some night,’ he said once with a malignant smile. ‘I’d chase him from here to the wilds of the Pacific. I am the devil.”
“I believe we are our own gods, and our own devils. Good and evil doesn’t exist out there in the world, it exists in each and every one of us.”
“No one showed any signs of recognizing me. I didn't know what I'd do if they did, other than lie like a devil and pray like a saint.”
“He’ll take from your mind the answer best suited to lead you on, to enthrall you. He’ll weave a web of deceits so thick you won’t see the world through it. He wants your strength and he’ll say what...”
“The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, the devil had his teeth pulled, and all he can only do now is gum you.”
“Then the green man’s face grew even blacker, the red beard so red it seemed to crackle and sparkle like fir twigs on the fire; the mouth contracted to an arrow-like point before it opened to inquir...”
“Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits-your incubi and succubi; yo...”
“Franny?” Rosy held up the four little Franks. “Could I keep one of these?”Franny looked at her hard for a moment then nodded. “’Course you can, hen,” she said, “But that’s not your daddy.”Rosy gape...”
“Satan seemed to wink at her. She supposed he would know her soul. She couldn’t remember selling it, least she wasn’t rich, but perhaps it wasn’t worth much.”
“They believed the devil would rise from here,” she said. “I’m serious. They thought he would come up through the cracks in the ground, that there would be an earthquake and he would rise. Dust. Fir...”
“An inverted five-pointed star. The humans don’t understand it correctly. They draw a goat’s head into it with the horns at the top. They like to see the devil everywhere, except in the mirror and o...”
“The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”
“Even if it’s a really funny joke, don’t laugh if the devil’s the one telling it!”
“Doesn't everyone sell his soul? I tell you, sir: the devil does not exist, there is no devil, yet I sold him my soul. That is what I am afraid of. To whom did I sell it? That is what I am afraid of...”
“When making a deal with the Devil – Haggle.”
“Most of my girlfriends are sent by the Devil and seem genuinely bemused when I do not succumb to their powers.”
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of God. The undoer. The destroyer. Yes. He definitely was.” Jason smil...”
