That white devil! – Thomas Brooks

While the disciples were healing diseases and casting out demons, the proud white devil was a-stirring in their own souls; as is evident by that gentle rebuke which our Savior gives them in Luke 10:20, “Don’t rejoice that the spirits submit to you.”

There is no pious duty which a Christian performs, but one white devil or another one lust or another will be still dogging and following of him to that duty. There is no public duty, there is no family duty, there is no private duty which a Christian performs but either that white devil pride, or that white devil hypocrisy, or that white devil vainglory; or else some one or another white devil will follow the soul, near at heel to it.