#damnation

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory. ↗

— James Larkin

#ensure #may #own #policy #succeed

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#bought #damnation #eternal #ever #i

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 goodness. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#evil #good #torment #good-and-evil

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#addictive #damnation #point #sins #tend

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. ↗

— Stephen King

#fate #free-will #freedom #freedom

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#been #believe #boy #certain #could

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#among #bible #bliss #complex #damnation

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#catastrophic #damnation #end #except #into