Laurence Sterne Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768
Birthday: November 24
Death: March 18
Upon the present theological computation, ten souls must be lost for one that is saved. At which rate of reckoning, heaven can raise but its cohorts while hell commands its legions. From which sad account it would appear, that, though our Saviour had conquered death by the resurrection, he had not yet been able to overcome sin by the redemption.
source: Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.271
topic: Heaven, Soul, Overcoming, Legion
