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“God created heaven on earth but man created hell.”
― Quote Me Everyday
― Quote Me Everyday
“Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.”
― Everwild
― Everwild
“God hides the fires of hell within paradise.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Some people need Hell. If you’re the type of guy who sees a hooker in an alleyway and instinctively thinks, “Hey, now there’s something I could rape and kill without any consequences,” then the concept of Hell might really keep you out of trouble.”
― The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
― The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
“But there’s a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe’a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, ‘I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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