Matthew 6:9-13

“Then Ilúvatar spoke, and he said: ‘Mighty are the Ainur, and mightiest among them is Melkor; but that he may know, and all the Ainur, that I am Ilúvatar, those things that ye have sung, I will show them forth, that ye may see what ye have done. And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.’”—J.R.R. Tolkein, The Silmarillion

“I can resist everything except temptation.”—Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.”—C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

    Photo:  Georgia O'Keeffe, “Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills” (Oil on canvas, 1935)