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Quotes About Damnation

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
~ Allen Ginsberg
EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I do not claim that God is dead. I tell you. He is alive and well but in no position to offer salvation, being damned Himself for His lacrimal indifference. He was lost the moment He demanded fealty and worship before He would offer His protection. The unmistakeable bargain of a gangster. Whereas the devil is anything but indifferent. The devil is always there to help those who are ready to sin, which is another word for 'live'.
~ Joe Hill
I do not claim that God is dead. I tell you He is alive and well but in no position to offer salvation, being damned Himself for His criminal indifference. He was lost the moment He demanded fealty and worship before He would offer His protection. The unmistakable bargain of a gangster.
~ Joe Hill
In damnation, the sinner receives what he deserves; in salvation, the saved sinner receives what he does not deserve. Judgment is all of merit; salvation is all of grace.
~ Joel R. Beeke
troubled to the extreme limit of trouble by his radiant face and by the damnation for all souls which shone from it
~ E. Powys Mathers
religion focused far more on damnation than on consolation.
~ Edward Dolnick
When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
~ Maggie Rowe
If one of the damned could just once say 'My God, I love you' it would no longer be hell for him.
~ Fr. George Rutler
And, though God may still forgive, Be damned on earth while you live!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
~ John Calvin
Misery loved company, but damnation needed it.
~ John Connolly
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree,Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us,If lecherous goats, if serpents enviousCannot be damn'd; alas; why should I be?
~ John Donne
What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?
~ John Donne
This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I didn't want to be in hell, even for a moment. I sure as hell wasn't going there just to spit in the face of the Prince of Darkness, whoever he might be! On the contrary, if I was a damned thing, then let the son of a bitch come for me! Let him tell me why I was mean to suffer. I would truly like to know. As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
~ Anne Rice
For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?
~ Anne Rice
Because no one could in any guise convince me of what I myself knew to be true, that I was damned in my own mind and soul.
~ Anne Rice
That's our damnation," he whispered. "Our moral improvement has reached its finish, and our intellect grows by leaps and bounds.
~ Anne Rice
I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.
~ Anne Rice
What can the damned really say to the damned?
~ Anne Rice
Styxx was damned and happiness never came to the damned.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And this is what we call life! ? If damnation truly is eternal! Isn't the man who tries to mutilate himselfdamned then? I think I am in hell, therefore I am. It's the fault of the catechism. I'm a slave to my baptism.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?
~ Arthur Rimbaud