The Devil Quotes

“Hermes’ son, Pan, was the god of sexual desire, a force seen by the Greeks as both creative and destructive. When the Christians, strongly influenced by Augustine in the fifth century, started to condemn anything to do with sex as bad and devilish, they turned to Pan for iconographic inspiration. His horned, hairy, goat-like figure was the model for many a painting of the lusty, bestial Devil.”
― Peter Stanford, The Devil: A Biography

“The eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher David Hume summed up the dilemma succinctly when he wrote of God: ‘Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then”
― Peter Stanford, The Devil: A Biography