Scott G. Bruce > Quotes

“Night with her veil of gloom covers and conceals the face of the earth, shrouding from our eyes all that is lovely and fair in the golden sunshine, the beauty and thousand comely forms of Nature, which speak joy to the heart and mind of man.”
― Scott G. Bruce, The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters

“The modern technologies and rational ways of thinking that supposedly mark our progress over earlier generations now allow us to commit mass murder and replicate infernal landscapes at the touch of a button; in an ironic reversal, we have become the very demons our ancestors trembled to meet when death foreclosed on their lives.”
― Scott G. Bruce, The Penguin Book of Hell

“Human perception often fails, but the eye of God pierces to the marrow. A human being sees what is on the surface, but God looks upon the heart. In the kingdom of eternal blessedness an everlasting brightness shines upon all things and there perfect sanctity, having obtained every delight, exults in the sons of the kingdom. Nothing without order happens there; nothing polluted enters there; nothing sordid and contrary to honesty is found there. Whatever sin the filth of the flesh has committed is burned away by a cleansing fire and is made clean by many kinds of purgation according to the decision of the eternal judge. And just as a vessel, scrubbed clean of rust and carefully polished all over, is placed in a treasury, so too the soul, cleansed from the contagion of every sin, enters paradise, and there, fortified with every happiness, it rejoices without fear or concern.”
― Scott G. Bruce, The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters

“Whatever good we do for the departed faithful both benefits them by conferring eternal rest and salvation, and benefits us, who do such works, by meriting God's grace and fellowship with those who are faithful to him. Therefore, we should not neglect the care for the dead, especially our loved ones and our brothers [in monastic life]. On the contrary, the more uncertain we are concerning their fates, the more attentively should we come to their aid, so far as our means allow, and commend them to our most kind Redeemer by our daily prayers, and mourn less for the death of their bodies than for their having sinned against God, the just Judge.”
― Scott G. Bruce, The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters

“The living should constantly consider these things and tremble, indeed beware, lest they suffer such dire penalties for their own sins.”
― Scott G. Bruce, The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters

“Let hearts marvel, let minds be amazed, and let limbs tremble at the novelty of it!”
― Scott G. Bruce, The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters

“Why then is it so strange that the dead, without their knowledge and unable to perceive these things, are seen by the living in dreams and say something, which the living know to be true when they wake up?”
― Scott G. Bruce, The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters