“Anyone who is outside this Church ... is walking a path not to Heaven but to Hell. He is not getting closer to the home of eternal. life; on the contrary, he is hurrying to the torment of eternal death. And this is the case not only if he remains a pagan without Baptism, but even if he continue as a heretic after having been baptized.” IfsHomeHeavenChurchCasesHellPathWalkingEternalRemainsContrarySacramentsTormentEternal LifePaganBaptismHereticHurryingBaptized Author:Fulgentius of Cartagena
“If I had to sit in Heaven forever, knowing that there are these people, millions and millions- probably billions of people, suffering these eternal horrible torments and there was nothing I could ever do for them, that, to me, would be Hell.” PeopleIfsWould BeSufferingHeavenMillionsHellForeverKnowingEternalBillionsHorribleTorment Author:Richard Carrier
“What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow pale at hideous fictions of our own? Enjoy the present; nor which needless cares Of what may spring from blind misfortune's womb, Appal the surest hour that life bestows. Serence, and master of yourself, prepare For what may come; and leave the rest to Heaven.” IfsMayEyeCareHeavenGrowsEnjoyHoursFictionMastersSpringBlindMortalsMisfortunesPaleWoeTormentWombHideousIngenious Book:John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice Source: John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice
“Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?” HeavenCuttingFaultsPatternsMutualTormentReproach Book:Letters of George Sand Source: Letters of George Sand
“Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.” Has BeensMightLeftHeavenWomenHellMankindFoolDevilToolsAdamThreatenedTorment Author:George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne