#devil

When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track for beatification, and thus to qualify her for eventual sainthood, the Vatican felt obliged to solicit my testimony and I thus spent several hours in a closed hearing room with a priest, a deacon, and a monsignor, no doubt making their day as I told off, as from a rosary, the frightful faults and crimes of the departed fanatic. In the course of this, I discovered that the pope during his tenure had surreptitiously abolished the famous office of “Devil’s Advocate,” in order to fast‐track still more of his many candidates for canonization. I can thus claim to be the only living person to have represented the Devil pro bono. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#beatification #canonisation #deacons #devil #devil-s-advocate

Be there a picnic for the devil, an orgy for the satyr, and a wedding for the bride. ↗

— Roman Payne

#devil #payne #picnic #poem #poetry

The devil's happy when the critics run you off. ↗

— Criss Jami

#certainty #confidence #criticism #critics #determination

The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's care, as is so often said. He always know exactly how to put his finger on it. ↗

— Joe Hill

#satan #soul #satan

Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth. ↗

— Anne Rice

#devil

Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him. ↗

— David Wong

#evil #trick #devil

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#devil #division #effort #god #labor

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror. ↗

— Sonya Levien

#devilish #extract #fascination #horror #instinct

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian! ↗

— Jerry Lee Lewis

#devil #go #god #got #heaven

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#certainly #devil #father #i #internet