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...proving grounds, nights and Sundays he buries himself under three to four hours of homework. Any hour of day or night, dealers and customers phone him for counsel. In the middle of the night recently, a weeping woman phoned from Minneapolis, said that she was tired of living in sin. But the man refused to marry her until he got the Chevy that he had ordered for a honeymoon trip. Please, couldn't Mr. Cole do something...
...kind of Hell certainly exists. "Some form of punishment, in the next world if not in this, may be necessary if sinners are to be brought to a realization of what their rebellion has meant to God in the rejection of his love and the frustration of his purpose. Sin involves separation from God . . . We have said that to be in Heaven is to be with God and with his redeemed. Hell is to be without God and without the fellowship of those who love him and rejoice in his presence. The farther we get away from God, the farther...
...Time for Sebastian was never 1914 or 1920 or 1936-it was always year 1." There is the verbal clowning, e.g., "optimystics," "sexaphone." Wit and humor often sugar-coat horror in Nabokov's novels, but the poignance of exile haunts his pages like a vestigial memory of original sin. From Sebastian Knight to Lolita, Nabokov has sprung ever more fascinating trap doors, and his ambiguous hell, like Sartre's, has no exit...
...believe that every human being inevitably becomes involved in sin and cannot attain salvation without God's intercession, even though man does not merit...
...than a tinsel paradise would have sufficed for the martyrs and the saints. To atheists, politics is religion; rival schemes of worldly order, are, literally, conflicting eschatologies; and the contemporary sense of individual political impotence is as awful a burden as Luther's over-whelming sense of guilt and sin, of total depravity--"the dark night of the soul"--before he discovered hope in the unmerited gift of Divine Grace...