Adoniram Judson

We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in heaven or burn forever in hell - we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain.

American Clergyman

George Muller

A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.

English Clergyman

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.

Charles Spurgeon

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

British Clergyman

Jakob Bohme

The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and reign in the fierce wrathful quality, in the quality of fierceness and wrath, destruction or perdition.

German Theologian

Eliza Farnham

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

American Activist

Carl Jung

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Swiss Psychologist

Robert Green Ingersoll

I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

American Lawyer

Cynthia Ozick

There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.

American Novelist

Albert Einstein

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

German Physicist

Perdition often implies irrecoverable loss affecting one's entire life or entity.

Complete Ruin

Can be used metaphorically to describe something severely damaged, not always literally destroyed.

Metaphorical Usage

Perdition is often used to add a dramatic effect suggesting major failure or downfall.

Dramatic Context

Used in religious contexts, perdition means eternal punishment after death.

Religious Connotation

Often carries a connotation of moral or spiritual failure leading to the punishment.

Moral Implications

Perdition is depicted as an irreversible, unending punishment.