{"quotes":[{"text":"But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?'It is required of every man,' the Ghost returned, 'that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world--oh, woe is me!--and witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!...I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere. My spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money-changing hole; and weary journeys lie before me!","author":"Charles Dickens","tags":["charity","christmas","purgatory","purpose-of-life","spirit"],"id":38799,"author_id":"Charles+Dickens"},{"text":"Politics is the art of promising heaven and delivering purgatory, and claiming hero status for saving your country from hell.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["heaven-and-hell","heaven","political-lies","political-philosophy","political-science","politicians","politics","politics-language","purgatory","saving-the-world"],"id":45811,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.","author":"Ursula K. Le Guin","tags":["air-travel","hell","hell-on-earth","purgatory"],"id":64008,"author_id":"Ursula+K.+Le+Guin"},{"text":"I thought that this must be what purgatory was like. Can't go forward. Can't go back. Awaiting some official judgment.","author":"Megan Miranda","tags":["hell","purgatory"],"id":78080,"author_id":"Megan+Miranda"},{"text":"We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere.'Where, Purgatory?' said Dozy. 'We're in Hell.","author":"John Connolly","tags":["funny","hell","purgatory","wrong-turn"],"id":81443,"author_id":"John+Connolly"},{"text":"God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform, as Reenie used to say. Could it be that Myra is my designated guardian angel? Or is she instead a foretaste of Purgatory? And how do you tell the difference?","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["angel","good-vs-evil","purgatory"],"id":86124,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"Atheism rises above creeds and puts Humanity upon one plane.There can be no 'chosen people' in the Atheist philosophy.There are no bended knees in Atheism;No supplications, no prayers;No sacrificial redemptions;No 'divine' revelations;No washing in the blood of the lamb;No crusades, no massacres, no holy wars;No heaven, no hell, no purgatory;No silly rewards and no vindictive punishments;No christs, and no saviors;No devils, no ghosts and no gods.","author":"Joseph Lewis","tags":["atheism","creeds","crusades","devils","divine","gods","heaven","hell","holy-wars","humanity","massacres","philosophy","prayer","purgatory","redemption","revelation","savior"],"id":107491,"author_id":"Joseph+Lewis"},{"text":"History will be erased in the universal purgatory.","author":"Dejan Stojanovic","tags":["dejan-stojanovic","erased","history","literature","literature","poetry","poetry","purgatory","quotes","thoughts","universal","wisdom"],"id":128036,"author_id":"Dejan+Stojanovic"},{"text":"The Enlightenment, finally, invented progressive 'history' as an inner-worldly purgatory in order to develop the conditions of possibility of a perfected 'society'. This provided the required setting for the aggressive social theology of the Modern Age to drive out the political theology of the imperial eras. What was the Enlightenment in its deep structure if not an attempt to translate the ancient rhyme on learning and suffering - mathein pathein - into a collective and species-wide phenomenon? Was its aim not to persuade the many to expose themselves to transitional ordeals that would precede the great optimization of all things?","author":"Peter Sloterdijk","tags":["ancient","enlightenment","enlightenment","optimization","philosophy","political-theology","purgatory","theology"],"id":186911,"author_id":"Peter+Sloterdijk"},{"text":"The myth of purgatory is an allegory, a projection, from the present on to the future. This is why purgatory appeals to the imagination. It is our story. It is where we are now. If we are Christians, if we believe in the risen Jesus as Lord, if we are baptized members of his body, then we are passing right now through the sufferings which form the gateway to life.","author":"N.T. Wright","tags":["afterlife","christianity","life","purgatory"],"id":194659,"author_id":"N.T.+Wright"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}