Gregory XVI Quotes

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

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

Why do people get upset when Christians say there is only one way to Heaven? Shouldn't those who follow a particular religion believe its doctrine to be true?

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

I know Marco Rubio very well. He's a friend of mine. He's a man of deep faith. He is a man who follows Catholic dogma and - you know, for whom religion is very important.

Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.

He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

The devil, as a master of deceit, does everything he can to keep people from believing in the existence of a hell; but hell is a literal state of existence that will be the plight of all those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ.

If Christ cannot supersede the Law, then I am lost, and lost forever.

I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they’re counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they’ve never been born again.

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'

At great cost to Himself, God has made it possible for each of us to live with Him eternally. Those who reject God's offer of a heavenly home will be assigned to hell.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him?

God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates even to say this without instantly contradicting themselves. Their doctrine frightens them. They explain in various ways that a great many people will be saved without believing, and that eternal damnation is not eternal nor damnation.

I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.