John Selden Quotes

My mother had people lay hands on me to cast demons out of me when I was 8. Then two or three times when I was in college.

Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is 'The Exorcist.' It still scares the living hell out of me, and it's because of the fantasy element. It's the exorcism. It's the Devil. It's not a guy breaking into your house trying to torture you or cut your whatever off. Those kinds of movies don't do it for me, and I don't call them horror.

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil.

Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.

An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.

Sweep Away All Monsters and Demons

I, a priest of Christ,... do command ye, most foul spirits, who do stir up these clouds,... that ye depart from them, and disperse yourselves into wild and untilled places, that ye may be no longer able to harm men or animals or fruits or herbs, or whatsoever is designed for human use.

If you believe in the Devil, it means that you are already in his grip.

Satan’s successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

Every time I meet someone, they talk about 'Shaitan.'

I was really scared of the devil growing up: I was convinced I was going to be possessed.

You. Me. Exorcist. -Bones

I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil.

The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.

In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.

The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.

There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.