Pastoral Resources

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

If it wasn't for the devil, we wouldn't be here, would we?

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.