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Quotes About Hell

Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Hell hath no fury like a frustrated fundamentalist whose God condemned him to "hell" for having "impure thoughts."
~ Michael R. Burch
As our leader Saddam Hussein said, 'God is grilling their stomachs in hell.'
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Even Heaven would be Hell to some people because they'd be too close to God!
~ David Berg
God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
~ Desmond Tutu
We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.
~ Desmond Tutu
Hell is God's Absence.
~ Edmund White
Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell
~ Emily Dickinson
Heaven is a state of awareness. Hell is a state of awareness.
~ Frederick Lenz
I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.
~ Isaac
In hell, the Devil is God.
~ Kedar Joshi
If God is in Heaven, Hell is empty.
~ Kedar Joshi
Sure, some of us humans might be angry at a sovereign God about Hell, but know that that is about as meaningful as a few germs being angry at humans about bleach.
~ Criss Jami
For lack of knowledge of the Holy One, we perish in sin of hell.
~ Lailah Gifty, Akita
Hell is full of good intentions.
~ Thomas Gray
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
~ Robert Southey
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
~ George Orwell
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.
~ Philip Zimbardo
Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.
~ Hugh Reginald Haweis
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
There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.
~ Tony Benn
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
~ Daniel Morgan