„The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon ‘Hell and Damnation’—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment..[]“

— W.E.B. Du Bois

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„Should the church be trying to erect a spiritual reign of terror over people by threatening earthly and eternal punishment on its own authority and commanding everything a person must believe and do to be saved?“
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
„The advantage of meditating upon life and death is being able to say anything at all about them.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.“
— John Wayne
„People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too.“
— Harper Lee
„There is no world without Verona walls,But purgatory, torture, hell itself.Hence banishèd is banished from the world,And world's exile is death. Then ""banishèd""Is death mistermed. Calling death ""banishèd"",Thou cuttest my head off with a golden axeAnd smilest upon the stroke that murders me.“
— William Shakespeare