Quotes about Judgment
I'm certainly not the guy who can say 'This guy doesn't belong in the business.' Unless you really went out of bounds or something, nobody died and left me. God and made me make those decisions.
— Arn Anderson
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are now so far from the road to truth, that religious teachers dispute and hate each other, and speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous. But to a sound judgment, the most abstract truth is the most practical. Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena. Now many are thought not only unexplained but inexplicable; as language, sleep, madness, dreams, beasts, sex.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven, then, is not our default destination. No one goes there automatically. Unless our sin problem is dealt with, the only place we can go is Hell, our true default destination when we die.
— Randy Alcorn
A Barna poll shows that for every American who believes he or she is going to Hell, there are 120 who believe they're going to Heaven.[4] Yet Christ said otherwise: "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it" (Matthew 7:13-14).
— Randy Alcorn
should have lived. But then it was too late! As long as they're alive, there's still one thing they can do to stay out of hell. But once they're dead, there's nothing they can do to get out of hell.
— Randy Alcorn
A true believer may spend a sleepless night doubting God. But what keeps a Communist awake at night is his fear there is a God. His wishful thinking is that God does not exist. For if there is no God, there is no Judge and, therefore, no judgment for his wickedness. But if there is a God, he knows he will not fare well before him. Or that God will make demands on him he does not wish to fulfill.
— Randy Alcorn
The forbidden Book says when there's no authority "every man does what is right in his own eyes.
— Randy Alcorn
If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames" (1 Corinthians 3:12-15).
— Randy Alcorn
Populating hell one image-bearer at a time
— Randy Alcorn
I have met no people who fully disbelieved in Hell and also had a living and life-giving belief in Heaven.
— Randy Alcorn