Marquis de Sade Quotes

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

Don't let the disbelievers think they can escape. They are your enemy and the enemy of Allah.

Surely God will never give preeminence to unbelievers over the true believers.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

To Him I look as my judge, to Him as the avenger of my wrongs, firm in my own good conscience and secure in the sincerity of my devotion, rooted in faith and confident that those who in the love of justice suffer injury can never be confounded, nor those who break the horns of the persecutors of the Church be deprived of their everlasting reward.

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.

The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.

If you suffer [death] in the way of God, it will be your profit in this world, and your reward in the next.

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

The bottom line is in heaven!

Do what you may, strive as earnestly as you can, live as excellently as you please, make what sacrifices you choose, be as eminent as you can for everything that is lovely and of good repute, yet none of these things can be pleaseing to God unless they be mixed with faith.

If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.

God knows the truth in all of this, and at the end of the day, that is the only thing that matters. Jesus was persecuted, and I'm going to get persecuted, ya know?

Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.

May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.

This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his [sic] creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious ourselves.

All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.