Definition of Purgatory

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Purgatory

Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory.

A state or place of purification after death; according to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have been forgiven. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are believed to be received into heaven.

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Purgatory Quotations

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
Charles Spurgeon

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
Arnold Bennett

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.
John McGahern

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
Frederica Montseny

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.
Dave Thomas

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
John Florio

Purgatory Translations

purgatory in Dutch is purgatorium, vagevuur
purgatory in French is purgatoire
purgatory in Italian is purgatorio
purgatory in Spanish is purgatorio

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