SATAN-GENERAL
He who sups
with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its
own magic: The (believer) who sups with it will find his spoon getting shorter
and shorter-until that last supper in which he is left alone at the table, with
no spoon at all and with an empty plate. The devil, one may guess, will by then
have gone away to more interesting company.
Quoted in: Guinness, Dining with the Devil,
Baker, 1993, p. 5.
Satan can
never undo a man without himself; but a man may easily undo himself without
Satan.
Thomas Brooks
A Puritan Golden Treasury, compiled by
I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA. 2000, p. 292.