#purgatory

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places. ↗

— John McGahern

#actually #australia #believed #canada #closer

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#god #hell #menacing #messiah #need

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living. ↗

— Dave Thomas

#closest #ever #experienced #i #living

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#catholic #desperation #go #heaven #heretic

'Rocky' represents the optimistic side of life, and 'Rambo' represents purgatory. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#optimistic #purgatory #represents #rocky #side

Wherever you go..., you'll see Heaven and Hell on every side... in us. Look for them and you'll soon know them. There on your left, Hell shuffles by, carrying a reluctant, gloomy chicken, his only comrade. There on your right, Heaven spring past, singing - a lunatic, a little too much for civilized contact. Just the way it always was. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#hell #purgatory #afterlife

Have you ever wondered what language they speak in Limbo? ↗

— Lee T. Gallup

#humor #inspirational #limbo #purgatory #inspirational

I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#film #had #i #illustration #perfect

Since both the departed saints and we ourselves are in Christ, we share with them in the 'communion of saints.' They are still our brothers and sisters in Christ. When we celebrate the Eucharist they are there with us, along with the angels and archangels. Why then should we not pray for and with them? The reason the Reformers and their successors did their best to outlaw praying for the dead was because that had been so bound up with the notion of purgatory and the need to get people out of it as soon as possible. Once we rule out purgatory, I see no reason why we should not pray for and with the dead and every reason why we should - not that they will get out of purgatory but that they will be refreshed and filled with God's joy and peace. Love passes into prayer; we still love them; why not hold them, in that love, before God? ↗

— N.T. Wright

#communion-of-saints #paradise #prayer #praying-for-the-dead #purgatory

[on Purgatory] It is, of course, open to anyone to say that the whole idea is morbid and exaggerated--open even to those who think nothing of queuing for twenty-four hours in acute discomfort to see the first night of a musical comedy, which lasts three hours at most, which they are not sure of liking when they get there, and which they could see any other night with no trouble at all. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#purgatory #music