Quotes about Hell
Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell.
— Randy Alcorn
Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.
— Jurgen Moltmann
Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.
— John Wesley
When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.
— John Calvin
Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.
— Charles Spurgeon
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
— George Bernard Shaw
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
— William Law
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way.
— William James
One rabbi who survived the camp summed it up well when he said that at Auschwitz it was as though there existed a world in which all the Ten Commandments were reversed. Mankind had never seen such a hell.
— William Lane Craig
The friendly preacher who fails to warn of the reality of Hell, betrays the Son of God with a kiss.
— Ray Comfort
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.
— JC Ryle