Quotes About Perdition

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

Even in this dark hour I had a sweet consolation. For I knew that except these Mohammedans repented they would go straight to perdition some day. And they never repent—they never forsake their paganism. This thought calmed me, cheered me, and I sank down, limp and exhausted, upon the summit, but happy, so happy and serene within.

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

I believe that modernism itself is based on an error, an error in the understanding of who man is, an error in under- standing the nature of reality both metacosmic and cosmic. Modernism is based on an enormous deception, which is leading us to perdition and destroying the world.

Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.

Freud believed that much of mental illness was due to repression, which is arguably and reasonably considered a form of self-deception. For him, memories of traumatically troubling events were unconsciously banished to perdition in the unconscious, where they rattled around and caused trouble, like poltergeists in a dungeon.

St. Augustine says: " Baptism does not consist in the merits of those by whom it is ad ministered, nor in the merits of those to whom it is ad ministered, but in its own sanctity and truth, on account of Him by whom it has been instituted, [it is] for the perdition of those who use it badly and for the salvation of those who use it well." 30

Such insinuated insecurities need to be confronted directly and plainly. It is not possible to drift unconsciously from faith to perdition.

A more refined morality must have as its base a once rigid belief in right and wrong based on a fear of perdition that permits of no shading, of no relativity. And when I speak here of perdition, it makes no difference whether perdition amounts to damnation in hell or the loss of parental affection. If, as modern middle-class parents are often advised, affection is guaranteed to the child no matter what, there will be no fear. But neither will there be much morality.

The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful quality, in the quality of fierceness and wrath, destruction or perdition.

She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul.

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

Aquellos que aquí entráis perded toda esperanza

Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition.

Mi amor enfermizo adoraba los libros no sólo por lo que decían sino por la materia de que eran, por el objeto en sí. Era un amor absoluto por los dos costados de la carne y el espíritu, como quien dice la total perdición.

Lo que había esperado resultaba ser su perdición y lo que había odiado su salvación.

I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.

The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!

Estaba enamorado de su propio destino y le parecía que incluso su marcha hacia la perdición era sublime y hermosa.

He that hath sinned In body, word, or thought, Or in anything That is called sinful, Doing not that which is righteous, But doing much that is unrighteous-- This fool after the dissolution of the body, Shall go to perdition.

The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!