“some cultures believe that a shooting, or fallen, star is a soul being released from purgatory−sent to heaven− finally given their eternal… — Tobias Wade Copy Share Image
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“For me, dear reader, that place was purgatory incarnate; neither good nor bad, but a gateway to great rewards or even greater… — Joss Sheldon Copy Share Image
If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
“Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.” — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“True, the doctrine of purgatory was not so popular outside Roman circles in the nineteenth century. But “penal substitution,” which had been… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The way I understood purgatory - and maybe you've got a different version - but in Chicago in the '70s, the idea… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“What is there left for me after my purgatory of solitude?...I welcome death as a version of life in which I will… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“He knows nothing about how this will all end, except that it will surely end. He tries to imagine himself into a… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Eventually, if enough masses are said and prayers uttered, the soul may pass from purgatory into Heaven. But that is not taught… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
“I'm still young and therefore I don't know as much about the world as an adult, yet I'm no longer a child… — Christine Lemmon Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A prison! heav'ns, I loath the hated name, Famine's metropolis, the sink of shame, A nauseous sepulchre, whose craving womb Hourly inters… — Tom Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
I think the idea that life ends when we physically die is as painful as the idea in Cromwell's time that there's… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“He didn’t care if he would be a villain in Alastor’s eyes. He had made peace with the fact a long time… — Gauri Sharma Copy Share Image
You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise… — Gary Ackerman Copy Share Image
In theory, it is illegal to make the basement into a bureaucratic purgatory. In 1994, for instance, Congress prohibited agencies from making… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
![“[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say…” quote by Jodi Picoult](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e53/jodi-picoult-45_communication_jules-slides-into-a-seat-beside-me-with_369395.jpg)
![“The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.” quote by Robert Green Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b22/robert-green-ingersoll-361_believe_the-catholic-church-is-a-thousand-times_1475596.jpg)
