Pastoral Resources

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God.

So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

Haste is of the Devil.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

If you can get some of the devil's money to use for the Lord's work, if you have to borrow it, it is all right and carry on the work.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?"

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

The devil's name is dullness.

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.