“Was it not through pride that the devil became the devil? Christ wanted to serve. The devil wanted to rule. Christ wanted to bring men to where He was. The devil wanted to be above men.”

Ezra Taft Benson

Ezra Taft Benson - “Was it not through pride that the...” 1

Similar quotes

“His trickery was beginning to get under my crawl. Then again, what wasn’t in this country? It was always devil this and devil that. Christ, so this is where the devil lives?”

Carroll Bryant Year of the Cat
Read more

“...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.”

Ruta Sepetys
Read more

“the devil may work against us for all he is worth, but God sends us men when we want them”

Bram Stoker
Read more

“All monsters are queers. Who is able to bring the dead back to life? God and the Devil. The Devil makes dead men into monsters: immortal, immoral—and queer.”

Derek McCormack
Read more

“What I want to do is to teach a lesson to all these people … I want [to prove] that the Devil exists, that the Devil reigns supreme, that the power he enjoyed in the Middle Ages has not been taken from him, for today he is the absolute master of the world.”

J.-K. Huysmans
Read more