Devil's Work Quotes

I got a Lucifer soul. I'll be the Devil's son, Devil's work, gettin' work.

A religion that requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil’s propagation.

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

When these inventions of the devil work, then what they achieve is more than amazing; when they do not work, then they achieve less than nothing.

God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.

Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.

[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.

Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

I've never seen the devil create music.

I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou art not a child of your merciful Father; for otherwise thou wouldst be also as he, merciful. It is certainly true that we cannot show as great mercy to our neighbor, as God has to us; but it is the true work of the devil that we do the very opposite of mercy, which is a sure sign that there is not a grain of mercy in us.

Idle time is the devil's play.

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

The devil finds work for idle hands.

The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

A witch is one who worketh by the Devil or by some curious art either healing or revealing things secret, or foretelling things to come which the Devil hath devised to ensnare men's souls …

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.