Spiritual Punishment Quotes

The power of pardon or of excommunication is possessed by the pope in no greater degree than by common priests, and that no man can be truly excommunicated unless he has first brought upon himself the condemnation of God.

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

Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.

There is no body will go to hell for company.

Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?

Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.

While the Bible teaches that immortality of the soul is conditional upon well-doing, it makes no distinction in respect of the spirit.

There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.

One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.

In a very Christian way, as far as I’m concerned, he can go to hell.

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.

...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.

Who goes to church against his will come home accursed.

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

What security is there for the churches of Britain if St Cuthbert with so great a throng of saints will not defend his own? Either this is the beginning of greater grief or the sins of those who live there have brought it upon themselves

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

We speak, indeed, of the wrath of God. We do not, however, assert that it indicates any passion on His part, but that it is something which is assumed in order to discipline by stern means those sinners who have committed many and grievous sins.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.