Purgatory Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
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
I'd rather goto Hell than be in Purgatory — Gerard Way
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
Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning. — Joseph O'Connor
One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory. — Pico Iyer
Angst is not the human condition, itâ€™s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but canâ€™t get. — Miguel Syjuco
A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet. — Carol Zaleski
The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine. — Nicolas Chamfort
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
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
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
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
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
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
We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. — Federica Montseny

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