A Quote by Saint Francis de Sales

Hell is full of good intentions and wills.

Saint Francis de Sales

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Saint Francis de Sales
Swiss - Priest
August 21, 1567 - December 28, 1622

Hell is full of good intentions.

Thomas Gray

I don't give a damn if I go to hell. I love you Satan. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Madonna Ciccone

The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason to truth and progress, was not at all in their intentions, in their purpose, in their personal character, but in their opinions.

Robert Briffault

In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.

Richard Baxter

The streets of hell are paved with good intentions.

Shania Twain

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Samuel Johnson

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

William James

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Ben Harper

Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There are people who do what they believe is right, but as they say, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'

Aja Naomi King

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

Thomas Aquinas

I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to notice that, through their anxious avoidance of criticizing non-Western countries, they trap the people who represent these cultures in a state of backwardness. The experts may have the best of intentions, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.