Quotes about Hell

understood the necessity of religion as a means of escaping hell, but I loved sin and was unwilling to forsake it.

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

The horror of Hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.

But his goodness is not disconnected from his righteousness. It is not bestowed in a way that would deny his infinite value and beauty and greatness. This is why God's righteousness involves final punishment as well as goodness. When God punishes the unrepentant in hell, he is not bestowing his goodness on them. But he does not cease to be good. His holiness and righteousness govern the bestowal of his goodness.

God is justified. God is blameless. If God casts David into hell, God will be innocent. This is radical, God-centered repentance.

If we live twenty-nine years or if we live ninety-nine years, would not any hardships be worth the saving of one person from the eternal torments of hell for the everlasting enjoyment of the glory of God?

Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.

Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell.

If the love of God will not induce the rebel to yield the terrors of an eternal hell will not drive him to repentance,

Every soul has a heaven to win, and a hell to shun.

If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then why did you tell me? Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

The first time the Deity came down to earth, he brought life and death; when he came the second time, he brought hell.