Perdition Quotes

• The missionary calling has sometimes been interpreted as a calling to stem this fearful cataract of souls going to eternal perdition. But I do not find this in the center of the New Testament representation of the missionary calling.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Soul, Missionary, Calling

  Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.167, SPCK

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• Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

  Epictetus

  Soul, Bait, Hook

  Epictetus (1890). “The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Soul, Chaos

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 90

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• The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Mean, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

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• The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.

  Jean Cocteau

  Enchantment, World, Fancy

  Jean Cocteau (1966). “The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

  George Gilder

  Light, Envy, Excellence

  George F. Gilder (2013). “The Israel Test: Why the World's Most Besieged State is a Beacon of Freedom and Hope for the World Economy”, p.155, Encounter Books

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• A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.

  George Muller

  Children, Blessing, Years

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• Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

  Victor Hugo

  Brother, Dark, Men

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.66

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• Perdition awaits at the end of a road constructed entirely from good intentions, the devil emerges from the details and hell abides in the small print.

  Iain Banks

  Devil, Details, Good Intentions

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• They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.

  Paul the Apostle

  Fall, Men, Roots

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• Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

  Eliza Farnham

  Soul, Church, Body

  "Woman and Her Era". Book by Eliza Farnham, pt. 1, ch. 1, 1864.

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• Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

  Paul Newman

  Father, Son, Law

  "Fictional character: John Rooney". "Road to Perdition", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Technology, America, Needs

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• It's not about the money for me.

  Dontrelle Willis

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• A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Vow

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• This is perdition: the things to which the heart was attached pass away while the person himself, who is an eternal being, is filled with nothing but emptiness when he should have been filled with God Himself. That is why it is so very important that we turn our focus inward to the source of life that lives forever, even as we ourselves will live forever.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Life Changing, Heart, Should Have

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• Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

  Herman Melville

  Flames, Whales, Giving

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.156

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• For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Deceit, Way

  "Notes from underground, White nights, The dream of a ridiculous man, and selections from The House of the dead". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1961.

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• Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

  Francois Rabelais

  Science, Soul, Conscience

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• Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Truth, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.755, Harvard University Press

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• The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Sad

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.

  Guy Debord

  Civilization, Youth, Made

  "Panegyric (Volume 1)". Book by Guy Debord, 1989.

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• I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Way, Taste, Pomegranates

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• It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed; that salvation only precedes perdition.

  Charles Fort

  Expression, Heaven, Hell

  "The Book of The Damned". Book by Charles Fort, 1919.

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• Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak grows from the acorn, or the harvest from the scattered grain. It is not that love to Christ merits heaven; it does far better, it makes heaven. It is, as it were, the organ of sensation that takes note of heaven's blessedness.

  Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

  Heaven, Doe, Want

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 401), 1895.

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