quotations about Hell
I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.
SYLVIA PLATH
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The Bell Jar
Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Stories
A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,
As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames
No light; but rather darkness visible
Served only to discover sights of woe,
Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes
That comes to all, but torture without end
Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed
With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Such place Eternal Justice has prepared
For those rebellious; here their prison ordained
In utter darkness, and their portion set,
As far removed from God and light of Heaven
As from the centre thrice to th' utmost pole.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.
TOM STOPPARD
The Invention of Love
When I die I don't want no part of heaven.
I would not do heaven's work well.
I pray the devil comes and takes me
To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Youngstown", The Ghost of Tom Joad
The person who disbelieves in Hell doesn't really believe in Heaven either. He believes in oblivion. He desperately hopes that he'll cease to exist after death. He hopes he'll get away with it after all.
DWIGHT LONGENECKER
Adventures in Orthodoxy
I fear no farther hell than that I feel.
EDWARD YOUNG
Busiris, King of Egypt: A Tragedy
Who believes in Hell? Is it a terrible place to which we sinners are condemned? Or is it a place of the imagination, fueled by fears that have built upon the superstitions and religious relics of our society?
S. KAYE SAUNDERS
Hell Exposed
Hell will not be a blot on the universe, but an eternal testimony to the ugliness of evil that will prompt wondrous appreciation of a good God's magnificence. That sounds like nonsense to Hell-hating moderns, but it makes perfect sense when we recognize and hate evil for what it is. We each have our preferred ways of sinning, whether as prostitutes, porn addicts, materialists, gossips, or the self-righteous. We all are sinners who deserve Hell.
RANDY ALCORN
If God Is Good
One smell of brimstone makes the whole world kin.
GEORGE ADE
"The Fable of How the Canny Commercial Salesman Guessed the Combination", True Bills
Satan knows where he's headed and he knows the everlasting punishment that awaits him there. Now he wants to persuade everyone he can (including you) to follow him to that place of torment. He'll make you believe any of his lies that he can to deceive you into being his roommate in hell forever. If he can make you believe that you will rule and reign with him there, then he'll do that. If he can make you believe that hell doesn't really exist, then that's what he'll do. If he can convince you that hell is a wonderful place, that will be his tactic. Satan will do whatever it takes to stop you from believing and receiving the truth. And the truth is; Satan hates you with a passion! His only desire is to hear your agonizing screams as you share his torture in the burning flames of hell.
RICK JONES
Stairway to Hell
The greatest misconception about hell is that it doesn't exist. Just as we believe scientists when they tell us there is such a thing as gravity, so should we believe God when he tells us there is such a place as hell. Many people wonder how a merciful and caring God could send people to such a terrible place. The truth is that God doesn't send anyone to hell; people choose to go there by their own rebellion, and God honors their choice.
RONALD A. BEERS & V. GILBERT BEERS
The Complete Book of Life's Questions
Hell. It's one of those topics you don't bring up in polite conversation. Yet, according to a 2004 Gallup poll, 70 percent of Americans believe in hell. What exactly they believe about hell is not spelled out, but you can be sure that lots of colorful ideas are out there. Unfortunately many of them originate from urban legends, spittle-spewing "fire and brimstone" preachers, and B-grade horror films (or some unfortunate combination of the three).
SEAN MCDOWELL & JONATHAN MORROW
Is God Just a Human Invention?
My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.
GLEN DUNCAN
Talulla Rising
I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
ROBERT E. HOWARD
letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, Jul. 1925
Hell doesn't exactly take people to heaven, but the eternal place apart from God sure makes people wonder about heaven. If they're pondering hell, odds are heaven will get some of their attention as well. In that respect, at least the topic of hell could coincide with Judgment Day and serve as a path to heaven.
MICHAEL M. MURRAY
52 Paths to Heaven
In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.
RICHARD BAXTER
"The People Who Receive the Saints' Rest", The Saints' Everlasting Rest
We do not believe in heaven or hell, yet no statistic will ever find that without these blandishments and threats we commit more crimes of greed or violence than the faithful.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
God Is Not Great
Hell doesn't come looking for humanity since it's a dead energy field, so it is humanity that is looking for hell.
CHANTHA TAN
Humanity Under Siege in the 21st Century and Why?
Now let us try for a moment to realize, as far as we can, the nature of that abode of the damned which the justice of an offended God has called into existence for the eternal punishment of sinners. Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke. The straitness of this prison house is expressly designed by God to punish those who refused to be bound by His laws. In earthly prisons the poor captive has at least some liberty of movement, were it only within the four walls of his cell or in the gloomy yard of his prison. Not so in hell. There, by reason of the great number of the damned, the prisoners are heaped together in their awful prison, the walls of which are said to be four thousand miles thick: and the damned are so utterly bound and helpless that, as a blessed saint, saint Anselm, writes in his book on similitudes, they are not even able to remove from the eye a worm that gnaws it.
JAMES JOYCE
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man