Favorite Quote about Satan?

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“When tempted, invoke your angel. Ignore the devil and do not be afraid of him: he trembles and flees at your guardian angel’s sight.” St. John Bosco

“The greatest of evils is not to be tempted, because then there are grounds to believe that the devil looks upon us as his property.” St. John Vianney
 
St. Teresa of Avila

I look upon it as a most certain truth, that the devil will never deceive, and that God will not suffer him to deceive, the soul which has no confidence whatever in itself; which is strong in faith, and resolved to undergo a thousand deaths for any one article of the creed; which in its love of the faith, infused of God once for all,–a faith living and strong,–always labors, seeking for further light on this side and on that, to mold itself on the teaching of the Church, as one already deeply grounded in the truth. No imaginable revelations, not even if it saw the heavens open, could make that soul swerve in any degree from the doctrine of the Church.
 
Winterwolf00 said:
. . . What reason do I have to believe Christians as opposed to Muslims?

Simply hearing about something is not enough.
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Agreed. 👍 It is not enough.

To be a Christian is more than holding to a set of ideas.
It is a way of life. It involves one totally.
The reading and contemplation of recorded revealed truths is one aspect.
A more important one is the actualization of these ideas in daily life.
One cannot simply think about the nature of God; the point is to do His will.
As one becomes a more loving person, it becomes clearer what is love.
Along with this comes an awareness of that which keeps us from our goal.

You may wish to consider your motives for being here.
How pure are they? To what degree do they manifest goodness. Do they speak to the awesomeness and beauty of life? To the truth?
Where this fails, is where I would see sin.
Imagine Satan as sin, evil, death and suffering personified.
Imagine that the converse is true, that rather than personifying a blind force, the reality is that some sort of person has led us to this predicament.
That person has been conquered but we remain in this state. We do however, have the means to be pulled out.

This gets complicated. I’m not asking you to believe what I am saying. What the world needs is greater understanding of one another, if we are to grow.
 
ialsop said:
. . . They though the Messiah was going to be a Jewish military leader who would overthrow Rome. BUT Christ DID establish His Kingdom, but unlike the people thought, it was not of this world.
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I see only broken remnants of the Roman Empire, and Christians are billions strong. Just saying.
 
Aloysium said:
I see only broken remnants of the Roman Empire, and Christians are billions strong. Just saying.
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true…but was Christ a PHYSICAl military leader? No. What you describe is a result of our spiritual military.
 
A quote from an unusual source, a novel by Charles Reade:
“Courage, ami, le diable est mort!” “Courage, friend, the devil is dead!” was Denys’s constant countersign, which he would give to everybody. “They don’t understand it,” he would say, but it wakes them up. I carry the good news from city to city, to uplift men s hearts." Once he came across a child who had broken a pitcher. “Courage, amie, le diable est mort!” said he, which was such cheering news that she ceased crying, and ran home to tell it to her grandma.
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*- **The Cloister and the Hearth

*Of course it isn’t strictly true but he is virtually dead if we believe Jesus has liberated us from his power.
 
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
― Oscar Wilde
 
SATAN, n. One of the Creator’s lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and axes. Being instated as an archangel, Satan made himself multifariously objectionable and was finally expelled from Heaven. Halfway in his descent he paused, bent his head in thought a moment and at last went back. “There is one favor that I should like to ask,” said he.
“Name it.”
“Man, I understand, is about to be created. He will need laws.”
“What, wretch! you his appointed adversary, charged from the dawn of eternity with hatred of his soul— you ask for the right to make his laws?”
“Pardon; what I have to ask is that he be permitted to make them himself.”
It was so ordered.

Ambrose Bierce “The Devil’s Dictionary”
 
6One day the members of the heavenly court came to present themselves before the Lord, and the Accuser, Satan, came with them. 7“Where have you come from?” the Lord asked Satan.

Satan answered the Lord, “I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that’s going on.”

8Then the Lord asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil.”

9Satan replied to the Lord, “Yes, but Job has good reason to fear God. 10You have always put a wall of protection around him and his home and his property. You have made him prosper in everything he does. Look how rich he is! 11But reach out and take away everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face!”

12“All right, you may test him,” the Lord said to Satan. “Do whatever you want with everything he possesses, but don’t harm him physically.” So Satan left the Lord’s presence.

Book of Job Chapter 1
 
2 Corinthians 11:1414 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

Matthew 24:24-2524 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
 
1 Peter 5:8-9:

"Your enemy the devil prowls about like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, solid in your faith.”
 
“He who sups with the devil should bring a long spoon.” Anonymous
 
ialsop said:
No, he did.

They though the Messiah was going to be a Jewish military leader who would overthrow Rome. BUT Christ DID establish His Kingdom, but unlike the people thought, it was not of this world.
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So wait, are you saying the Kingdom of Heaven didn’t exist until Jesus came around?
 
Aloysium said:
I see only broken remnants of the Roman Empire, and Christians are billions strong. Just saying.
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Christianity did contribute to the fall of the Roman Empire, but so did a lot of other factors.
Not sure that helping to start the Dark Ages is something to be proud of though.

And there are more non-Christians in the world then there are Christians.
 
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
C. S. Lewis
 
“The devil’s name is dullness.” Robert E. Lee

“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.” Norman Mailer

“If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.” Joel Osteen

“He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.”
Thomas Fuller
 
“Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.” St. Jerome
 
Winterwolf00 said:
Christianity did contribute to the fall of the Roman Empire, but so did a lot of other factors.
Not sure that helping to start the Dark Ages is something to be proud of though.

And there are more non-Christians in the world then there are Christians.
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Who cares?
 
“The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.”
William James

“For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.” Martin Luther
 
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