HELL QUOTES VI

quotations about Hell

To those who wish to punish others -- or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters in to their own hands -- the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.

STEVE ALLEN

Steve Allen on the Bible


[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

letter to Colette O'Niel, Oct. 23, 1916


Hell is separated from heaven; for all who are in hell, when they lived in the world, were in the mere delights of the body and the flesh from the love of self and the world; but all who are in heaven, when they lived in the world, were in the delights of the soul and the spirit from love to the Lord and love toward the neighbor. Because these loves are opposite, therefore the heavens and the hells are so entirely separated, that a spirit who is in hell dares not raise the crown of his head, or even put forth a finger thence; for the moment he attempts it, he is racked and tortured.

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG

Heaven and its Wonders and Hell


Don't get me wrong. I don't want to go to hell any more than the next guy (especially if eternal conscious torment ends up involving some form of nonstop Barry Manilow music marathon). It's just that the threat of hell doesn't move me any longer.

BRIAN JONES

Getting Rid of the Gorilla


All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.

C. S. LEWIS

The Great Divorce


There's a lot of loose talk going around to the effect that Hell doesn't exist. It never seems to strike these gabby pundits that not to exist may be precisely the reality of Hell.

HUGH HOOD

Near Water


Redemption can be found in hell itself if that's where you happen to be.

LIN JENSEN

Bad Dog!


Heaven and Hell are, in my opinion, much like God: a feel-good idea that swims in the minds of people, but has little bearing in reality. It's also a nifty way to control people through fear.

ANONYMOUS

World Religions in a Nutshell


The devil, as a master of deceit, does everything he can to keep people from believing in the existence of a hell; but hell is a literal state of existence that will be the plight of all those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ.

TIM LAHAYE

Revelation Unveiled


In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.

C. S. LEWIS

The Problem of Pain


There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Just because your sins have landed you in Hell doesn't mean you shouldn't seek Grace.

EDWARD LEE

House Infernal


Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.

JAMES JOYCE

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man


Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.

RANDY ALCORN

If God Is Good


You might be wondering--the hard-men among you, the nutters, the glassers, the thugs--whether you couldn't hack it in Hell, whether you couldn't, when it came right down to it, just butch the bastard out. Well guess what: You couldn't.

GLEN DUNCAN

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Perhaps the thought of going to hell doesn't alarm you, because you don't believe in it. That may be your belief, but if hell exists, your lack of belief won't make it go away. Standing on a freeway and saying, "I don't believe in trucks" won't make the 18-wheeler disappear.

KIRK CAMERON

Still Growing


I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

Notes from the Underground

Tags: Fyodor Dostoevsky


Canst thou fly too fast from hell and damnation? Canst thou be too carefull to avoid those paths, which, though strewed with roses, lead down to the chambers of death? Whether is it better thy flesh should murmur, or thy soul should perish? O that knowing these terrors of the Lord, our whole life might be one constant flight from the wrath that is to come!

WILLIAM MCEWEN

"On the Misery of the Damned", Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity


This was hell then; it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room.

GRAHAM GREENE

Brighton Rock


The extreme horribleness of hell, as portrayed by priests and nuns, is inflated to compensate for its implausibility. If hell were plausible, it would only have to be moderately unpleasant in order to deter. Given that it is so unlikely to be true, it has to be advertised as very very scary indeed.

RICHARD DAWKINS

The God Delusion