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“Being a vampire is not a curse. Its a disease, Tessa filled in. But they still cant enter hallowed ground, then? Does that mean theyre damned? That depends on what you believe, said Jem. And wheth...”
“Woe to the soul which God rejoiceth to punish! . . . . Is it not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shal lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall ...”
“Was this what she had shattered convention for; broken with her family, her friends? Everything she had ever known; doomed herself to eternal damnation, for the sake of what she had believed would ...”
“If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himself and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning.”
“I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into go...”
“Next I prayed to Allah, whose ears are deaf; then did I beseech his fallen twin, the Devil Hornprick, who sits upon his thorn of fire, gloating upon his constellations and counting his bloody seeds...”
“Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.”
“This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and put a booby-trapped tree right in front of us. You gave us sex and told us not to do it. You...”
“O sirs, how many souls, then, have every one of us been guilty of damning! What a number of our neighbours and acquaintance are dead, in whom we discerned no signs of sanctification, and never did ...”
“Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good willmy soul do thy lord?Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom.Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socio...”
“Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,Where we are tortured and remain forever.Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribedIn one self place, for where we are is hell,And where hell is m...”
“The fires of hell may be made of the very love of God, experienced as torture by those who hate him: the very light of God's truth, hated and fled from in vain by those who love darkness.”
“Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even thereHe'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.”
“Damnation is eternal. Thats the whole point. Otherwise, what good would it do you?”
“You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get ”
“Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues and alleyways, tormenting hapless damned at random with branding irons,...”
“The door of the visible church is incomparably wider than the door of heaven (522)[.]”
“The Judgement is not a question, it's a sure answer, as to a clump of dough, that will yeast and rise, or go in the oven and burn to crust.”
“He who falls, falls by his own will; and he who stands, stands by God's will.”
“I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.”
