100+ Evil Spirits Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.55, Destiny Image Publishers

topic: Evil Spirits

Today evil spirits are seen as negativity which floats around the Earth in large quantities.

- Scott Cunningham

topic: Evil, Negativity, Earth, Evil Spirits

You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride.

- Robert Johnson

source: Song: Me And The Devil Blues

topic: Evil, Body, May, Greyhounds, Evil Spirits

Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of me is to be clutched at by some dead girl. To put my ear to her chest and hear nothing. Even getting munched on by zombies beats the idea that I'm only flesh and blood, skin and bone. Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Girl, Angel, Thinking, Evil Spirits, Skin And Bones

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Source Of Life, Knowing Things

Christ prayed for those that crucified Him: 'Father, count not this sin against them; they know not what they do.' Archdeacon Stephen prayed for those who stoned him so that the Lord would not judge this sin against them. And so we, if we wish to retain grace, must pray for our enemies. If you do not find pity on a sinner who will suffer in flames, then you do not carry the grace of the Holy Spirit, but rather an evil spirit; and while you yet live, you must free yourself from his clutches through repentance.

- Silouan the Athonite

topic: Father, Flames, Evil, Free Yourself, Clutch

If an evil spirit had to hide from God, it would hide in a diamond. If an angel had to hide from the Devil, it would hide in rose quartz.

- Suzy Kassem

topic: Angel, Evil, Rose, Quartz, Evil Spirits

Satan delegates high-ranking members of the hierarchy of evil spirits to control nations, regions, cities, tribes, people groups, neighborhoods and other significant social networks of human beings throughout the world. Their major assignment is to prevent God from being glorified in their territory, which they do through directing the activity of lower-ranking demons.

- C. Wagner

source: C. Peter Wagner (2012). “Supernatural Forces in Spiritual Warfare: Wrestling with Dark Angels”, p.43, Destiny Image Publishers

topic: Cities, Evil, People, Evil Spirits

There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Men, Evil, Deeds, Evil Spirits, Devilish

In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.

- Ignatius of Loyola

topic: Fall, Angel, Rocks, Disturbance, Evil Spirits

The particular sin of omission which gives ground to the evil spirits is the believer’s passivity.

- Watchman Nee

source: Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.867, Christian Fellowship Publishers

topic: Omission, Evil, Giving, Passivity, Evil Spirits

To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.

- William Blackstone

topic: Law, Evil, Sorcery, Wiccan, Evil Spirits

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge. For if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world, as evil spirits will have more knowledge, and consequently more power..

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

topic: Education, Men, Other Worlds, More Knowledge, Evil Spirits

In Miami, there's nothing going on. Everybody's depressed; everybody's trying to get jobs, feed their families. At three in the morning you see the fiends just walking around, ready to eat. Evil spirits lurking.

- SpaceGhostPurrp

topic: Morning, Jobs, Evil, Evil Spirits

The ninos santos (Psilocybe mexicana) heal. They lower fevers, cure colds, and give freedom from toothaches. They pull the evil spirits out of the body or free the spirit of the sick.

- Maria Sabina

topic: Evil, Giving, Sick, Evil Spirits, Toothache

This is the first adventure I’ve survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair? I’d call this progress. ~Jaime Vegas

- Kelley Armstrong

topic: Evil Spirits

I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette”, p.80, The Floating Press

topic: Strong, Selfish, Evil, Evil Spirits, Villette

Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper, the law. Yet Richard Smith, cemetery sexton and death deity scholar, had a book for me to read in all my copious spare time.

- Meg Cabot

topic: Running, Book, Law, Evil Spirits

The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: War, Sleep, Passion, Evil Spirits

In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.

- Robertson Davies

source: Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

topic: Life, Good Luck, Ideas, Evil Spirits

Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the other side, the equations of motion in a central field. Ever higher soars the chaos of formulae. Suddenly we hear, as from kettle drums, the four beats 'put n=5.' The evil spirit v vanishes; and ... that which had seemed insuperable has been overcome as if by a stroke of magic ... One result after another follows in quick succession till at last ... we arrive at the conditions for thermal equilibrium together with expressions for the transport coefficients.

- Ludwig Boltzmann

topic: Expression, Evil, Magic, Kettles, Maxwell

How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.

- V. S. Naipaul

topic: Pain, Character, Passion, Evil Spirits

Christmas Eve Saint Francis and Saint Benedight Blesse this house from wicked wight; From the night-mare and the goblin, That is hight good fellow Robin: Keep it from all evil spirits, Fairies, weezels, rats, and ferrets: From curfew time To the next prime.

- Thomas Cartwright

topic: Time, Night, Evil, Goblin, Ferrets

What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek divine revelations, and to live to God? These are the pleasures - these are the spectacles - that befit Christian men.

- Tertullian

source: Tertullian “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian, Volume 1”, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Christian, Men, Feet, Divine Revelation, Evil Spirits

There are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove. They expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events.

- Tertullian

topic: Christian, Evil, Events, Evil Spirits

The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

- Karl Barth

source: Karl Barth (1941). “This Christian cause: (A letter to Great Britain from Switzerland)”

topic: Jesus, Order, Evil, Jesus Resurrection, Christs Resurrection

People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals featuring pentagrams, swords, and invocations. That's fine, people need to give free reign to their imagination and to go through certain stages. Anyone who gets through those stages without being deceived will eventually get in touch with the Tradition.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Children, Imagination, People, Invocation, Paranormal

In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

topic: Fear, Men, Evil, Evil Spirits

I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but my academic involvement with Burroughs was entirely due to my tutor at Oxford, Peter Conrad. I was discussing with him the idea of staying on to do graduate work and when I tossed the name of Burroughs into the conversation - well, he let it fall loudly onto the floor, and proceeded to cross himself as if warding off an evil spirit. Since I was very ambivalent about an academic career in any case, that decided it for me.

- Oliver Harris

topic: Book, Fall, Names, Tutor, Tongue In Cheek

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

- James Anthony Froude

source: James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.343

topic: Evil, Deceit, World, Insincerity, Evil Spirits

I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on me? More canst Thou remit, than I commit; more canst Thou spare, than I offend. Let not hurtful pleasures overcome me; at the least let not any perverse habit overwhelm me; From evil and unlawful desires; From vain, hurtful, impure imaginations; from the illusions of evil spirits; from pollutions of soul and of body; Good Lord, deliver me.

- Lancelot Andrewes

topic: Evil, Imagination, Soul, Evil Spirits

We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.

- Sophocles

source: Sophocles, Edward Hayes PLUMPTRE (Dean of Wells.) (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre”, p.410

topic: Running, Evil, Goal, Evil Spirits

Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center of the universe. Children are miniature adults. At one time in history each of these beliefs was generally held to be true. Each, however, gave way to different ideas and even different world views.

- Michael Lewis

topic: Children, Views, Ideas, Different Ideas, Parallel Lines

. . . [T]hese [ideas] are only suggestions of the evil spirit who, to jeopardize your salvation, suggests to you extraordinary works that are beyond your strength, under the fine pretext of practicing, on your own, the spiritual and corporal works of mercy . . .

- Vincent de Paul

topic: Faith, Spiritual, Ideas, Jeopardize, Evil Spirits

I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever.

- Helmut Kohl

source: "Europe 'Needs Maastricht to Fend Off Past'". www.independent.co.uk. October 28, 1992.