Sooner or later Quote by Franz Wright

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

— Terry Pratchett

“Strange how people yearn to become holy only after years of depravity.” She smiled knowingly. “Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.”

— Jeff Wheeler

“What would it be like to die? When the torment and the pain were through, would my soul go to God? Or be trapped,…

— Julie Berry

“What in the most holy of bloody fucking hells and purgatories has happened?”

— Connie Suttle

“In the name of all that is holy, tell me why God felt the need to make a hell. It seems so redundant.”

— Rick Yancey

“But nothing awakens religious consciousness like suffering.”

— D.T. Suzuki

“Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult…

— Karen Armstrong

“Of course, it couldn't last. Those whom the gods would destroy utterly, they first give a taste of heaven.”

— Cory Doctorow

“If this is the will of God, it takes a strange and terrible shape. I did not know that the God of Battles was…

— Philippa Gregory

“They seem to be a doomed people. The curse of a people calling themselves Christian, seems to follow them everywhere;”

— Richard Henry Dana Jr

“The concept of hell and endless torment is popular with those who believe they aren't headed there.”

— Ian Brady

“The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond.”

— Stephen R. Lawhead