Habits Quote by Declan Finn

“And believe me, the Catholic Church has much to thank Dante for. His Inferno terrified the faithful for centuries, and no doubt tripled church…

— Dan Brown

“I must say that I think all this doctrine, that hell-fire is a punishment for sin, is a doctrine of cruelty. It is a…

— Bertrand Russell

“He believed that every individual was responsible for his conduct on earth, that there was a judge within. Could even a blazingly Christ inflict…

— Irving Stone

“There is a particular circle of hell not mentioned in Dante's famous book. It is called comportment, and it exists in schools for young…

— Libba Bray

“Dante's Hell is part of our world as much as part of the underworld, and shouldn't be avoided, Lowell said, but rather confronted. We…

— Matthew Pearl

“There is a reason Dante made betrayal the deepest level of Hell”

— Dr. Laura Schlessinger

There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that,…

— Tony Benn

Catholic theology accounts for the fact that there's evil in the world. People say, well, how could God let this happen. Well, what God…

— Roger Ebert

“The torment of hell is not fire and brimstone, pitchforks and claws, or, as Dante supposed, aimless wandering, unsatisfied lust, icy rain, foul swamps,…

— Ron Phillips

The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.

— Sean Ningen

“I thought of Dante. His hells were the excess of our desires and, in the deepest circles, the pain of our victims.”

— C.D. Reiss

“Hell had become, over the years, a wearisome speculation. Even its proselytizers have neglected it, abandoning the poor, but serviceable, human allusion which the…

— BORGES JORGE LUIS