HELL QUOTES IV

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

The Bell Jar

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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


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


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


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 is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Stories


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


Some time ago a Clergyman was proving to me by arguments many and strong that hell was right, necessary and just; that it brought glory to God and good to man; that the holiness of God required it as a preventive, and the justice of God exacted it as a penalty, of sin. I listened quietly till all was over and silence fell on the reverend denunciator; he ceased, satisfied with his arguments, triumphant in the consciousness that they were crushing and unassailable. But my eyes were fixed on the fair scene without the library window, on the sacrament of earth, the visible sign of the invisible beauty, and the contrast between God's works and the Church's speech came strongly upon me. And all I found to say in answer came in a few words: "If I had not heard you mention the name of God, I should have thought you were speaking of the Devil." The words, dropped softly and meditatively, had a startling effect. Horror at the blasphemy, indignation at the unexpected result of laboured argument, struggled against a dawning feeling that there must be something wrong in a conception which laid itself open to such a blow; the short answer told more powerfully than half an hour's reasoning.

ANNIE BESANT

My Path to Atheism

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Hell was not part of the original creation. Hell is God's fall-back position. Hell is something God was forced to make because people chose to rebel against him and turn against what was best for them and the purpose for which they were created.

LEE STROBEL

The Case for Faith


One smell of brimstone makes the whole world kin.

GEORGE ADE

"The Fable of How the Canny Commercial Salesman Guessed the Combination", True Bills


I fear no farther hell than that I feel.

EDWARD YOUNG

Busiris, King of Egypt: A Tragedy


Is hell a physical place? Yes and no. When people die, their soul leaves their body and they're no longer physical. The Bible says when people who are ultimately headed for hell die before Christ's return, they're separated from the presence of God but they're not in a physical place because they're not physical. In that sense, hell is probably not a location, but it's a real part of the universe. It's like you go through a door into another kind of existence.

LEE STROBEL

The Case for Faith


Hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are.

GENEEN ROTH

Women


Hell is being alive, and being alive is all there is.

MICHAEL MARSHALL

The Upright Man


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

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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


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?


Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell, unless it is the sorely limited mind that has failed to describe heaven.

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?