Donald Ray Pollock Quotes

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road.

I am sure I ought not to be, but I have great reason to tremble lest Satan and my own wicked heart get the better of me. It is no easy matter to fight such enemies as these, but with Christ strengthening me, I know I shall come off more than a conquerer.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.

My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.

Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

Watch us, all stand in line, for a slice of the devil's pie. Who am I to justify, all the evil in our eye. Been through hell. All them fools whose souls' for sale. Demons screaming in my ear. Your soul's me, your soul's somethin' that I, feel inside. If I run, Lord only knows how far. You're part of my identity. I sometimes have the tendency to look at you religiously.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

I don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I pray with others too.

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.