Quotes about Hell
For then will be the incorruptible Judge, the terrible judgment-seat, the answer without excuses, the inevitable charges, the stern punishment, the endless Gehenna, the pitiless Angels, the yawning hell, the roaring stream of fire, the unquenchable flame, the dark prison, the rayless darkness, the bed of live coals, the sleepless worm, the indissoluble chains, the bottomless chaos, the impassable wall, the inconsolable cry, none to stand by me, none to plead for me, none to snatch me out.
- Lancelot Andrewes
People nod at the idea that when God is depicted only as a white man, only white men seem godly. They laugh at the idea that priests dressed in skirts try to trump women's birth-giving power by baptizing with imitation birth fluid, calling us reborn, and going women one better by promising everlasting life. Indeed, elaborate concepts of Heaven and Hell didn't seem to exist before patriarchy;
- Gloria Steinem
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God
- Jonathan Edwards
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
- George Bernard Shaw
The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
- JC Ryle
Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell explores his solitary flight.
- John Milton
Christ came down to save us from a terrible hell, and any man who is cast down to hell from here must go in the full blaze of the gospel, and over the mangled body of the Son of God.
- DL Moody
When men talk of a little hell it's because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.
- Charles Spurgeon
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
If God is love and humans are free, then there must be a hell. Not only would it be a contradiction for God to force people to love him, but it would also be hell for them to be forced to love the One they hate.
- Norman Geisler
Love must be free: it is a free choice. So in spite of God's desire, some men do not choose to love him. All who go to hell do so because of their free choice. They may not want to go to hell, but they do will it.
- Norman Geisler
Hell is not just a place of torment; additionally it's a place of separation from God.
- James Garlow