The Devil is the name given to a supernatural entity, who, in most Western religions, is the central embodiment of evil. See also Satan.

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• Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk.
  • Tom Waits "Heartattack and Vine", Heartattack and Vine (1980)

• The Devil wants your soul! ...fuck, when is that contest going to be over? When do they calculate the souls in heaven and hell and go "we got a winner!"
  • David Cross, from the "Shut Up, You Fucking Baby!" CD

• The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
  • Charles Baudelaire, "The Generous Gambler" (Feb. 1864)

• A Warning: Please look for signs of possession before performing this rite. Signs include speaking in tongues, Hulk-like strength, and unusual knowledge.
  • De Exorcisms (Exorcism Rite), approved by John Paul II, the pope, January 26, 1999

• We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
  • Mark Twain, "Concerning the Jews", Harper's Magazine (Sept. 1899)

• And now I would ask a strange question: who is the most diligentest bishop and prelate in all England that passeth all the rest in doing his office? I can tell for I know him who it is; I know him well. But now I think I see you listening and hearkening that I should name him. There is one that passeth all the other, and is the most diligent prelate and preacher in all England. And will ye know who it is? I will tell you: it is the devil. He is the most diligent preacher of all other; he is never out of his diocese; he is never from his cure; ye shall never find him unoccupied; he is ever in his parish; he keepeth residence at all times; ye shall never find him out of the way, call for him when you will he is ever at home; the diligentest preacher in all the realm; he is ever at his plough; no lording nor loitering can hinder him; he is ever applying his business, ye shall never find him idle, I warrant you. And his office is to hinder religion, to maintain superstition, to set up idolatry, to teach all kind of popery. He is ready as he can be wished for to set forth his plough; to devise as many ways as can be to deface and obscure God's glory...O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel.
  • Hugh Latimer's Sermon on the Plough 29 January, 1548. (G. E. Corrie (ed.), Sermons by Hugh Latimer, sometime Bishop of Worcester, Martyr, 1555 (Cambridge University Press, 1844), pp. 70-1.)

• "Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 2After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.- Matthew 4:1-3"

Wow! I like that, see? Because that's the way the devil does it. Everytime you make an error, everytime you make a mistake and I mean it's nothing but a mistake; the first thing he says is 'if you are what you say you are', 'If you are a preacher', 'If you were a Christian'. That's the devil, everytime you hear it from somebody. Did you hear what I said? Everytime you hear somebody make a suggestion like that, remember that's not them, that's the devil! And I don't want to go too much further without telling you this: Before the devil even opens his mouth you ought already know who you are. It won't shake you, it won't bother you, because you already know who you are!"

• • Archbishop LeRoy Bailey Jr., Senior Pastor The First Cathedralin a sermon entitled "An Abundant Overflowing Thought" 2008. The First Cathedral Media Ministries

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• "And does evil like beauty,steal the soul by night?. And Satan himself as a beacon, come as an angel of light?" Steve Sayles

• Though Satan should never be given undue prominence, it is important that the place given to him in Scripture be realised. No other individual, except the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, is afforded so prominent a place in the Bible from its very beginning to its end, as the character whom we know as Satan, the Devil. Of no one else are we so minutely informed concerning his origin, his fall, his character and work, his influence, and his ultimate judgment and destiny. Heathen lands have been enveloped in the grossest darkness and basest superstitions and practices because they lack clear teachings concerning him which the scripture afford. We need not be “ignorant of his devices.”
  • Duffield & Van Cleave

• And lo, God said: Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me, and let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.
  • John Wing

• Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.
  • Sigmund Freud

• Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
  • Tennessee Williams

• If the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky

• 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.
  • Helen Keller

• The Devil's voice is sweet to hear.
  • Stephen King

• They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with.
  • Gene Roddenberry

• This cumbersome concept that men call the beast; I will destroy it, my men need a feast. I am the blasphemer, I make your kind heel; Bring forth Satan and cleave him with steel. Worship God or the Devil... it's all the same. Religion is a haven for the weak and lame.
  • Gwar - Anti-Anti-Christ