Brad Dourif Quotes

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.

God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.

I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.'

If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

By that sin fell the angels.

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers.

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

Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.