Purgatory Quotes
55 quotes by 55 authors
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of…
— Arnold Bennett
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I have held and hold souls to be immortal.... Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise,…
— Giordano Bruno
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You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in…
— Lady Gaga
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In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from purgatory, and the…
— Richard Dawkins
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The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that…
— Mike Schmidt
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I'd rather goto Hell than be in Purgatory
— Gerard Way
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If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing…
— Joseph J. Romm
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Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.
— Joseph O'Connor
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One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
— Pico Iyer
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Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.
— Miguel Syjuco
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A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.
— Carol Zaleski
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The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort…
— Arthur Koestler
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The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds…
— Thomas Aquinas
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A person may say I am not much concerned how long I stay in purgatory, provided I may come to eternal life. Let no one…
— Caesarius of Arles
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Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them,…
— Vincent de Paul
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Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath…
— C.S. Lewis
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We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they…
— John McGahern
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
— Federica Montseny
Who Wrote These Purgatory Quotes
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