“If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”
“We must have been very very bad in our last lives, cos karma's busy making macramé with us.”
“The devil takes us to the top of an exceeding high mountain and makes us dizzy; but God lets us look at the mountain.”
“It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance”
“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.”
“But the same badness which makes us need it, makes us unable to do it [repent]. Can we do it if God helps us? Yes.”