What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had been quite judicious about the scripts I was reading, but nothing was really taking my fancy until I pulled this script out: 'Lucifer.' I have to say, within about three or four pages, I thought it was hilarious; I laughed out loud a couple of times and knew this is the one that I wanted to do.
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.