quotations about Hell
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
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
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
Redemption can be found in hell itself if that's where you happen to be.
LIN JENSEN
Bad Dog!
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
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
If heaven is where people become fully human, then hell is the ultimate disintegration of what it means to be human.
SEAN MCDOWELL & JONATHAN MORROW
Is God Just a Human Invention
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
If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Gonzo Papers
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
Notes from the Underground
Just because your sins have landed you in Hell doesn't mean you shouldn't seek Grace.
EDWARD LEE
House Infernal
Perhaps people take umbrage at a God who condemns people to hell because they feel like they're already there.
CRAIG DETWEILER
A Purple State of Mind
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
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Misalliance
There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
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
All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.
C. S. LEWIS
The Great Divorce
Hell is no less than the eternal and second death, in its utmost extent and terror, as, just in all respects the opposite to eternal life, 'tis the most finished misery of the wicked, wherein they are ternally separated from the pleasing perception of God, and the fruition of all kinds of good, confined in chains of despair and darkness, under the lively and afflicting sense of the punishing vengeance of the Deity, justly kindled and continually flaming against them for their offensive actions, and in a wise and equitable proportion to the measure of those offenses. So that they are filled with incessant stings and horrors of conscience, and tormented in soul and body with such painful and raging flames, as will forever distress, but never consume their bodies, or destroy a lively consciousness of guilt in their souls to all eternity.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
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
I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go
NEIL GAIMAN
Season of Mists