Sympathy for the Devil

I recall, back in the day, reading some lyrics to a Stryper song which went something like "To hell with the devil." Later, I worshipped at a church which sang a praise song with a similar theme. I was taught that, though we had authority (given by Christ) over the enemy, that we should also not disrespect him as even St. Michael, when arguing with him over the body of Moses, said, "The Lord rebuke you."

More recently, I've found another thread of though which implies, as the title of this post suggests, that we should have sympathy, even love, for Lucifer. I offer you two quotes, the first from St. Isaac the Syrian and the second from Fr. Romanides (who is quite offensive to Western Christians, for good reason). I covet your thoughts on both, especially the radical (to me) idea that "hell is the lowest form of salvation):

What is a merciful heart? It is a heart that burns with love for the whole creation — for men, for birds, for beasts, for demons and for every creature.

Augustinian Christians, both Vaticanians and Protestants, are literally unbalanced humans, and had been indeed very dangerous up to the French Revolution and are potentially still quite dangerous. They were never capable of understanding that God loves equally both those who are going to hell and those who are going to heaven. God loves even the Devil as much as He loves the saint. "God is the savior of all humans, indeed of the faithful" (1 Tim. 4:10). In other words hell is a form of salvation although the lowest form of it. God loves the Devil and his collaborators but destroys their work by allowing them to remain inoperative in their final "actus purus happiness" like the God of Thomas Aquinas.