Favorite Quote about Satan?

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Here is mine from the mouth of Jesus::

John 8:44 ►

“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
 
Here is another:

“Satan must have been pretty simple, even according to the New Testament, or he wouldn’t have led Christ up on a high mountain and offered him the world if he would fall down and worship him. That was a manifestly absurd proposition, because Christ, as the Son of God, already owned the world; and besides, what Satan showed him was only a few rocky acres of Palestine. It is just as if some one should try to buy Rockefeller, the owner of all the Standard Oil Company, with a gallon of kerosene.” - Mark Twain,
 
*Not so much a quote but something I always remember one of my teachers at Junior School often saying to us: *
The devil’s cleverest trick is to persuade us that he doesn’t exist.
 
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
St. Theresa of Avila
 
dividus said:
*Not so much a quote but something I always remember one of my teachers at Junior School often saying to us: *
The devil’s cleverest trick is to persuade us that he doesn’t exist.
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That was from ‘The Usual Suspects’: “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
 
Sister Wendy said on one of her art videos, that if you are ever afraid you are encountered by the devil, ask him to take his shoes off…he’s embarrassed by his hooves. 😉
 
For we war not against flesh and blood, but against the powers, principalities, spiritual wickedness in high places, and world rulers.
 
dividus said:
*Not so much a quote but something I always remember one of my teachers at Junior School often saying to us: *
The devil’s cleverest trick is to persuade us that he doesn’t exist.
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I believe that’s from CS Lewis in The Screwtape Letters.
 
Originally Posted by dividus
Not so much a quote but something I always remember one of my teachers at Junior School often saying to us:
The devil’s cleverest trick is to persuade us that he doesn’t exist.
I believe that’s from CS Lewis in The Screwtape Letters.
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Thanks, I didn’t know that. I have skimmed through “The Screwtape Letters” but have never read it attentively.

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hat was from ‘The Usual Suspects’: “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
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Thamks.I know that the quote is featured in “ The Usual Suspects” but my time at Junior school was in the late fifties.
 
St. John Chrysostom says, “The devil does not tempt man for just as long as he likes, but for as long as God allows; for although He allows him to tempt for a short time, He orders him off on account of our weakness.”
 
G.K. Chesterton on the Devil

If optimism means a general approval, it is certainly true that the more a man becomes an optimist the more he becomes a melancholy man. If he manages to praise everything, his praise will develop an alarming resemblance to a polite boredom. He will say that the marsh is as good as the garden; he will mean that the garden is as dull as the marsh. He may force himself to say that emptiness is good, but he will hardly prevent himself from asking what is the good of such good. This optimism does exist — this optimism which is more hopeless than pessimism — this optimism which is the very heart of hell.

Against such an aching vacuum of joyless approval there is only one antidote — a sudden and pugnacious belief in positive evil. This world can be made beautiful again by beholding it as a battlefield. When we have defined and isolated the evil thing, the colours come back into everything else. When evil things have become evil, good things, in a blazing apocalypse, become good. There are some men who are dreary because they do not believe in God; but there are many others who are dreary because they do not believe in the devil. The grass grows green again when we believe in the devil, the roses grow red again when we believe in the devil.
 
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian’s daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?
  • Mark Twain’s Autobiography
 
There is no need to pray for the devil. His condition is permanent and willful.

Satan is where he wants to be. As the poet John Milton put it:

Satan would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven.
 
Charlemagne_III said:
There is no need to pray for the devil. His condition is permanent and willful.

Satan is where he wants to be. As the poet John Milton put it:

Satan would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven.
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Yes because Milton has personally communed with the devil.
Or would that be heresy?
 
Winterwolf00 said:
Yes because Milton has personally communed with the devil.
Or would that be heresy?
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If the Devil would LIKE to repent, why hasnt he? The reason angels get no salvation is not because they dont have it offered, it is because they rejected it.
 
ialsop said:
If the Devil would LIKE to repent, why hasnt he? The reason angels get no salvation is not because they dont have it offered, it is because they rejected it.
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Is hell not a place with no exit?
Are you telling me now that redemption is possible even after death?

Because that is contrary to what I’ve heard from most Christians…except maybe Unitarian Universalists, good people them.
 
“And you, when you were dead in your offenses and sins, wherein in times past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of this air, of the spirit that now worketh on the children of unbelief” (Ephesians 2:1-2).
 
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