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«While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.»
«The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.»
Author: Bible
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«REPROBATION, n. In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Calvin, luckless, perdition, predestined, reprobation
«PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. This doctrine should not be confused with that of foreordination, which means that all things are programmed, but does not affirm their occurrence, that being only an implication from other doctrines by which this is entailed. The difference is great enough to have deluged Christendom with ink, to say nothing of the gore. With the distinction of the two doctrines kept well in mind, and a reverent belief in both, one may hope to escape perdition if spared.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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accompanied, lip, lip service, perdition, Road to Perdition
«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.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
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carry, carry out, danger, Everything to Everyone, fulfil, on the road, perdition, promises, Road to Perdition, using
«To bottomless perdition, there to dwell / In adamantine chains and penal fire.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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adamantine, bottomless, chains, dwell, penal, perdition