With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.
Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.
Now, we can't stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time - if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
If someone ensures us two square meals a day, we will sing and pray all our waking hours. If one has to hoe sugarcane all day, devotion to God vanishes like smoke.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.