Quotes About Damnation

A woman, young, full of life and laughter, a human with a psychic connection to him. A human filled with compassion, intellect, and strength. Death and damnation could wait another day while he satisfied his curiosity.

It's often been observed that the major religions can give no convincing account of Paradise. They do much better in representing Hell; indeed one of the early Christian dogmatists, Tertullian, borrowed the vividness of the latter to lend point to the former. Among the delights of Heaven, he decided, would be the contemplation of the tortures of the damned.

Tertullian, one of the many church fathers who found it difficult to give a persuasive account of paradise, was perhaps clever in going for the lowest possible common denominator and promising that one of the most intense pleasures of the afterlife would be endless contemplation of the tortures of the damned. He spoke more truly than he knew in evoking the man-made character of faith.

FAUSTUS: Where are you damn'd? MEPHISTOPHILIS: In hell. FAUSTUS: How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell? MEPHISTOPHILIS: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it:

FAUSTUS: Bell, book and candle, candle, book and bell, Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned.

Hell and confusion light upon their heads.

Any odds are good odds for the damned

Abigor, pecca pro nobis… Amon, miserere nobis… Samael, libera nos a bono… Belial eleison… Focalor, in corruptionem meam intende… Haborym, damnamus dominum… Zaebos, anum meum apries… Leonard, asperge me spermate et inquinabor

and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny;

He could not forget the past, and he didn't really wish to. Despite everything that had happened, he cherished Katherine's memory. But there was one memory he must truly not disturb, one page of the journal he must not turn. If he had to relive that horror, that… abomination, he would go mad. As he had been mad that day, that final day, when he had looked upon his own damnation.

Assurément, de tels yeux durent ensorceler, autrefois, les filles folles de Tyr ou de Mésopotamie, qui venaient jouer de la cithare et du tympanon jusque sous les murs de l'imprenable tour d'Hippicos, pour la damnation du peuple de Dieu.

Being irretrievably damned had its advantages:

lord, if my enemy kills me, I am damned; so save me from death

You save yourself. That's all. You save yourself, or you're damned.

If I'm to be damned for what I've done, I'll be damned in full and not by halves.

Uncle Tom's Cabin, then, is activated by what might be called a theological terror, the terror of damnation; and the spirit that breathes in this book, hot, self-righteous, fearful, is not different from that spirit of medieval times which sought to exorcize evil by burning witches; and is not different from that terror which activates a lynch mob.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.

I tell him of damnation, but I doubt he fears anything but the darkness in his own mind.

And as there is no damnation to them that are engrafted in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit; so is there no health nor salvation to them that live after the flesh, though they babble ever so much of Christ, of Christ's passion, blod, and death, of the remission of sins, of the mercy of God, of the gospel, of the sweet promises of God, and of everlasting life.

There is no way under heaven to be interested in Christ, but by believing. He that believeth shall be saved, let his sins, be ever so great; and he that believeth not shall be damned, let his sins be ever so little.