8 sentences with 'hell'
Example sentences and phrases with the word hell and other words derived from it.
• « Medieval depictions of hell were filled with the image of priests, monks and nuns, all plummeting into the fire to face eternal torment for the profoundly poor work they had done in life to fulfil the moral demands of their respective vocations. »
• « Written in his own native dialect, the Tuscan of the city of Florence, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into hell, guided by the spirit of the classical Roman poet Virgil. Dante and Virgil emerge on the other side of the earth, with Dante ascending the mountain of purgatory and finally entering heaven, where he enters the divine presence. »
• « Dante's journeys through hell, purgatory and heaven in the poem are replete with encounters with two categories of people: Italians from Dante's life or the recent past, and real and mythical figures from ancient Greece and Rome. »
• « Catholic doctrine held that even the souls of those who avoided hell did not go directly to heaven at death. »
• « Martin Luther struggled with his spiritual identity. He had an obsessive fear of being condemned to hell, feeling totally unworthy of divine forgiveness and plagued by doubts as to his ability to achieve salvation. »
• « This Christianised version of an ancient Greek model of the universe is where the concept that God and Heaven are "up in the sky" and hell is "under the earth" originated. »