The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
Sex, sin, and the Devil were early linked.
The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone...
Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.
There's the smell of the devil's mischievousness, a pitchfork in your ass and sulfur in your mouth. The Bastard's there, all right, don't doubt it.
He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged to, for the devil was a murderer from the beginning, and a tormentor to the end. On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God's mark.
There are some that don't have a positive reaction to the word devil. There are some who don't have a positive reaction to a devil ray. What is a devil ray If we make a change, it will be something that will be more accessible and appeal to everyone . . . or at least not drive people away.
We've talked as a staff how important it is to do this one well. And I think it's real important for Grand Forks to show it supports high school basketball. Hopefully the people in the community will come out and support the tournament. Devils Lake losing in the boys regional didn't help our attendance. They were by far the best-followed team in the East Region tournament.
We started the publicity, we started moving in the same direction with them, and then the devil came in and just turned that right around.
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils Speaking lies in hypocrisy having their conscience seared with a hot iron Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
I don't know how to explain it. If we could bottle up these efforts against the Devils and use them every night, we wouldn't be fighting for a playoff spot. Some teams you just match up well with and I guess this is one of them.
My brother's love, the devil, and my rage.
I'd hire the devil himself as a writer if he gave me a good story.
Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.
Epitaph on Newton Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night God said, 'Let Newton be,' and all was light. added by Sir John Collings Squire It did not last the Devil shouting 'Ho. Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo Aaron Hill's version O'er Nature's laws God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul and all was light.
I know that a woman is a dish for
the gods, if the devil dress her not.
He brings the total package, ... He brings hockey sense, enthusiasm, a passion for the game, 100 percent effort all the time and tremendous character. We couldn't be more excited to have him in the organization. He's a prototype young Devil.
Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
We were all thinking in the back of our minds, oh God, here we go, the Devil Rays have our number.
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
Devil Rays manager Lou Piniella, who has been running around ballfields as long as 62-year-old Mick Jagger has been strutting on stages, has seen as much of the Sox and Yankees as any opponent, and he doesn't know who rates the edge. I think it's going to come down to the face-to-face meetings, ... Both teams are good teams. (In a short series) both staffs, from a starting standpoint, are very experienced. Really, that bodes well for both teams.
There are legitimate home-based business opportunities, but the devil is in the details, and there's a lot of over-promising here.
I am yet
Unknown to woman, never was forsworn,
Scarcely have coveted what was mine own,
At no time broke my faith, would not betray
The devil to his fellow, and delight
No less in truth than life.
SMITHAREEN, n. A fragment, a decomponent part, a remain. The word is used variously, but in the following verse on a noted female reformer who opposed bicycle-riding by women because it led them to the devil it is seen at its best; The wheels go round without a sound -- The maidens hold high revel In sinful mood, insanely gay, True spinsters spin adown the way From duty to the devil They laugh, they sing, and --ting-a-ling Their bells go all the morning Their lanterns bright bestar the night Pedestrians a-warning. With lifted hands Miss Charlotte stands, Good-Lording and O-mying, Her rheumatism forgotten quite, Her fat with anger frying. She blocks the path that leads to wrath, Jack Satan's power defying. The wheels go round without a sound The lights burn red and blue and green. What's this that's found upon the ground Poor Charlotte Smith's a smithareen --John William Yope.
Zounds sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.
You remember how he would trust strangers, and if they fooled him he would say, 'It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious'--that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil.
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in I feel sometimes a hell within myself
O while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.
We really can't afford to look past the next 20 minutes of hockey. There are some neat things building between the Devils and ourselves and we're happy about that for everybody concerned.
Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
What a devil of a bore it must be to be the superior person - those mental anaemics who never read about murders, divorces, or whatever the special squeamishness may be to which they pin their vanity - as grotesque as going to the play and boasting
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.
I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.
Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more.
Now that I'm on TV, I can't gluttonize as much as I would like. Even the devil has to watch his weight.
Railing and praising were his usual themes and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
He's very experienced. It's a big challenge for me to play against him and to play against the Devils. When I got here this year, the goal was to make the playoffs and, growing up, Marty was one of the big guys. I just want to enjoy the experience.
Good Lord, what is man for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.
When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce.
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description.
It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
'Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.
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