A Quote by Saint Teresa of Avila

I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Saint Teresa of Avila

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Saint Teresa of Avila
Spanish - Saint
March 28, 1515 - October 4, 1582

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Teresa of Avila

I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself.

Teresa of Avila

Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: 'I am Who am.' The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: 'I am who am not.' Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.

Fulton J. Sheen

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.

Hugo Chavez

Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.

Dan Millman

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.

Bob Marley

You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My god! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the devil! Most of mankind has believed in the devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the devil.

Antonin Scalia

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

Joanne Greenberg

If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.