 The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn. LUTHER The devil.. . the prowde  The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. Lewis - 2009 - 224 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Martin Luther - Table-talk - 1857 - 516 pages
...temptation, you must preach the law to him; 'let him who has been afflicted, be afflicted no more.' The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not go for texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn." irith a good effect,... | |
 | Robert I. Levy - Social Science - 1975 - 575 pages
...'a-instigated activity. As such activity is usu10. Note the European parallels in Luther's dictum: "The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not...to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn." And Thomas More's, "The devil . . . the proud spirit . . . cannot endure to be mocked" (quoted in CS... | |
 | Eugene H. Peterson - Reference - 1996 - 140 pages
...position, along with our wisest ancestors, that the one thing the devil cannot stand is to be mocked. “The best way to drive out the devil, if he will...to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn,” Martin Luther observed. I count this small book (thirty-one brief chapters) as one of the basic books... | |
 | Brad A. Brown - Evangelicalism - 2003 - 210 pages
...and pushed too far too soon. My sudden "AHA!" produced the very result described by Martin Luther, "The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to the texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn." The moment I had caught... | |
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