Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability. — Mahatma Gandhi
Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. — Samuel Chadwick
This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil. — George Whitefield
If Mephistopheles climbed up the pulpit and read the Gospel, could anyone be inspired by this prayer? — Stephen Kotkin
He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain. — John Ray
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff. — Aleister Crowley
He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook. — Thomas Brooks
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. — C. S. Lewis
How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting. — John Hagee
The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically. — St. Catherine of Siena
The devil's voice is sweet to hear. — Stephen King
The devil strains every nerve to secure the souls which belong to Christ. We should not grudge our toil in wresting them from Satan and giving them back to God. — Saint Sebastian
Short Screwtape Letters Quotes
Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying. — Paul Billheimer
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. — Isaac Watts
Satan gets disturbed -and defeated -when you decide to do more that be a Sunday-morning Christian. — Jentezen Franklin
The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil. — Arabic Proverbs
The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible. — Charles Spurgeon
He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels — Henri Michaux
The devil's most devilish when respectable. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If Satan can't make you bad, he'll make you busy. — Adrian Rogers
Screwtape Letters Image Quotes
If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.
S Letter Quotes
The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them. — Adrian Frutiger
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. — A. A. Milne
Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate. — Jack Adams
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a very good letter.'Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together. — Arnold Lobel
Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting. — Steve Carell
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. — C. S. Lewis
Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life. — Dorothy Parker
Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle. — Gino Bartali
The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl’s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things. — Eric Gill
Letter Quotes
Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that. — Rumi
If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all — Lala Lajpat Rai
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men. — Sojourner Truth
If Plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters! Stay cool.
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay. — Adrian Frutiger
The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion. — Giambattista Bodoni
For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e. — Leonhard Euler
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together. — Plotinus
Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two." — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which inevitably is read continuously to remind them of their Beloved. — Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. — Cole Porter
Hand Lettering Quotes
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. — Mother Teresa
Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect... God has written the letters of death upon your hands. In the inside of your hands you will see the letters M.M. It means 'Memento Mori' - remember you must die. — John Furniss
Niggas' rap albums sound like love letters,
Pen in my hand, like: damn, fam, I could do much better. — Sean Price
I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter. — Diane Lane
Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off. — Mary Karr
I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God — Mother Teresa
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. — Alice Walker
He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. — C. S. Lewis
German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting. — Franz Kafka
This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me. — Emily Dickinson
Love Letter Quotes
If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go. — Nicholas Sparks
Learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon. — Ikkyu
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. — Liz Carpenter
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I love you is eight letters...then again, so is bullshit. — Ville Valo
The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. — Svetlana Alliluyeva
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. — Eudora Welty
You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down. — Michael Marshall Smith
I have two interests in life – markets and women. Both are concerned with four letter words – markets with the risk and woman with love. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance. — C. S. Lewis
The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person. — Robert Thurman
Suspicion often creates what it suspects. — C. S. Lewis
Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see. — C. S. Lewis
When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever. — C. S. Lewis
It is always the novice who exaggerates. — C. S. Lewis
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel. — C. S. Lewis
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. — C. S. Lewis
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result? — C. S. Lewis
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. — C. S. Lewis
Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches. — C. S. Lewis
The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity. — C. S. Lewis
The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels. — C. S. Lewis
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary — C. S. Lewis
All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. — C. S. Lewis
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him. — C. S. Lewis
Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility. — C. S. Lewis
For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. — C. S. Lewis
When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours. — C. S. Lewis
Prosperity knits a man to the world. — C. S. Lewis
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth. — C. S. Lewis
Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose. — C. S. Lewis
He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand. — C. S. Lewis
A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing. — C. S. Lewis
The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays. — C. S. Lewis
The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack. — C. S. Lewis
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. — Martin Luther
A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee. — C. S. Lewis
A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression. — C. S. Lewis
Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking) — C. S. Lewis
Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred. — C. S. Lewis
Pilate was merciful till it became risky. — C. S. Lewis
There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them. — C. S. Lewis
I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked. — C. S. Lewis
Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary. — C. S. Lewis
Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous. — C. S. Lewis
The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under. — C. S. Lewis
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey. — C. S. Lewis
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