Maria Monk Quotes

I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

Come to your sense, madmen. Cease your bloody violence, for what you are doing is not only cruel, it is indeed satanic, and for it you will be subject to the fires of hell in the life to come beyond the grave, and to a terrible curse from posterity in this earthly life.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

I know what sin is.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.

What people fail to understand coughing up sin and confessing it and giving it to the only one that can remove it, for crying out loud, we're all sinners.

Always remember this. Television, fame, money - listen, here is a news flash for America. Fame cannot remove your sin. And all of the money you ever amass cannot raise you from the dead.

I am a big sinner.

I know I'm a sinner.

If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that is sorry for it, mends his pace. He that forsakes it, is at his journey's end.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.