purgatorial fire

But people feel that to pass through this purgatorial fire is a mistake.

Purgatory was always looked upon as a fire, purgatorial fire.

She would transmit the purgatorial fire of what was most spiritually extreme in European art and thought.

And it was always felt that one had to pass through purgatorial fire in order to pass into Heaven.

He felt something of purgatorial fire--a burning of brain and nerves.

The doctrine of "purgatorial fire" was typical of medieval Roman Catholic theology.

In the early 5th century, Augustine spoke of the pain that purgatorial fire causes as more severe than anything a man can suffer in this life.

At the Council itself, the Greek Metropolitan Bessarion argued against the existence of real purgatorial fire.

If you have no worse crime than a love affair upon your soul, I think that our good chaplain Olmedo will frank you through the purgatorial fires.

If to be warmed, then I must freeze And quake in frigid purgatorial fires Of which the flame is roses, and the smoke is briars.

He also rejected the doctrine of Purgatory, in that he objected to the existence of a purgatorial fire that "purified" the souls of the faithful.

Following Boehme and William Law, we may say that, by unregenerate souls, the divine Light at its full blaze can be apprehended only as a burning, purgatorial fire.

Because if one allows the longing to increase without any hope, without any desire, without any searching for means to satisfy it, it in itself will become a purgatorial fire.

Augustine taught that the eternal fate of the soul is determined at death, and that purgatorial fires of the intermediate state purify only those that died in communion with the Church.

With the Lions, he has strode the sunlit uplands in Australia, passed through the purgatorial fires in South Africa and descended to the darkest depths in New Zealand.

In his preface, Mayer refers disdainfully to "ex-Communist renegades" and "ultraconservative historians" who fault the French and Russian Revolutions for "all the purgatorial fires of the 20th century."