Sentences with 'damnation'

Example sentences and phrases with the word damnation and other words derived from it.

« The early Christians came to insist, following Paul, that Jesus had been the Messiah, but that the "liberation" he offered was spiritual in nature, rather than having to do with prosaic politics. In other words, the potential to save the soul from damnation exceeded the Old Covenant. »
« Penitents confessed their sins to the priest, who absolved them and assigned them a penance to atone for their actions and save them from eternal damnation. Thus, the parish priest had enormous power over the lives of his parishioners. »
« Edwards' best-known sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," used powerful word pictures to describe the terrors of hell and the possibilities of avoiding damnation by personal conversion. »
« One passage reads, "The wrath of God burns against them [sinners], their damnation slumbers not, the pit is prepared, the fire is ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them, the flames now roar and glow. The bright sword is sharpened and held over them, and the pit has opened its mouth beneath them." »
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