C S Lewis Satan Quotes & Sayings

Reason may win truths; without Faith she will retain them just so long as Satan pleases. — C.S. Lewis

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint. — C.S. Lewis

Wholly given up to villainy and debauchery, and ride the steed of perfidy and presumption, and dive into the sea of error and impiety, and are united under the banner of Satan. — Bernard Lewis

For the greater the love the greater the grief, and the stronger the faith the more savagely will Satan storm its fortress. — C.S. Lewis

Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop. — C.S. Lewis

All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either [Satan] or God will say "mine" of each thing that exists, and specially of each man. — C.S. Lewis

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life. — Danah Boyd

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal ... To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable. — Rebecca Solnit

Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail. — Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

I must have your soul ; must have it mine, and mine for ever. — Matthew Gregory Lewis

I think I will die laughing. — Jeanne Calment

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography. — C.S. Lewis

If you want to find inspiration Dare to fall, because the view down there is deep. — Vanessa

He had been so many things. Seductive as silver and deadly as a cobra. And vulnerable like a hurt child underneath it all. — L.J.Smith

I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God. — C.S. Lewis

Tolkien disapproved of Lewis's Narnia books because they worked by analogy, taking an existing myth and retelling it with different names and circumstances, whereas he felt that you should make your own myth out of whole cloth. But it's not possible to read The Silmarillion without seeing how Sauron's fall mirrors Satan's. It's only a question of how you triangulate your relationship to your source material. — M.R. Carey

If you haven't met Satan recently, you are probably going his way! — C.S. Lewis

We're in a give-and-take relationship, Felicity." He pulled me off the table. "So give. On your knees. — J.J. McAvoy

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan. — C.S. Lewis

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you ... Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you. — Ernest Hemingway,

Anna, you do have decent fashion sense. But I've seen your outfits, and you don't have anything to wear on a date. Jeans, capris, geeky tee shirts, and more jeans. — J.M. Richards

Dear 2600: I think my girlfriend has been cheating on me and I wanted to know if I could get her password to Hotmail and AOL. I am so desperate to find out. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
And this is yet another popular category of letter we get. You say any help would be appreciated? Let's find out if thats true. Do you think someone who is cheating on you might also be capable of having a mailbox you don't know about? Do you think that even if you could get into the mailbox she uses that she would be discussing her deception there, especially if we live in a world where Hotmail and AOL passwords are so easily obtained? Finally, would you feel better if you invaded her privacy and found out that she was being totally honest with you? Whatever problems are going on in this relationship are not going to be solved with subterfuge. If you can't communicate openly, there's not much there to salvage. — Emmanuel Goldstein

It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind. — Sinclair Lewis

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael. — C.S. Lewis

...If a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing [for Satan and his devils to do] is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits"him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches. The reasons are obvious. In the first place the parochial organization should always be attacked, because, being a unity of place and not of likings, it brings people of different classes and psychology together in the kind of unity the [Lord] desires... In the second place, the search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where the [Lord] wants him to be a pupil. — C.S. Lewis

Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you. — C.S. Lewis

The difference between the Christian and the Dualist is that the Christian thinks one stage further and sees that if Michael is really in the right and Satan really in the wrong this must mean that they stand in two different relations to somebody or something far further back, to the ultimate ground of reality itself. — C.S. Lewis

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to perserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. — Aldo Leopold

They proved their love for God, not with words or with songs of worship, but with pure, undefiled obedience. — Marian Jordan Ellis

Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look. — Shelly Crane

You are mine, and Heaven itself cannot rescue you from my power. — Matthew Gregory Lewis

What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? — David Levithan