Quotes About Hell

the naive forms of Christian moral motivation - bare threats of hell and the bribery of heaven - stunt moral growth by ensuring believers remain emotional children, never achieving the cognitive moral development of adults. Psychologists have established that mature adults are moral not because of bare threats and bribes (that stage of moral development typifies children, not adults), but because they care about the effects their behavior has on themselves and others.

There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a 'hottest part' implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.

Hell is a conspiracy, and the first requirement of a conspiracy is that it remain underground.

Let all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man's life or two. Life without would be a hell, indeed.

I loved Ann and would help her. Nothing in the depths of Hell would keep me from it.

I think I know the secret of Hell House, Ben." Fischer didn't speak for almost half a minute. "Do you?" he asked then. "It's Belasco." "How?" "He safeguards the haunting of his house by reinforcing it," she said. "By acting as a hidden aide for every other haunting force.

On the ride back south, she tapped all the anger-management tricks they'd given her in job training. They played across her windshield like PowerPoint slides. Number One: It's not about you. Number Two: Your plan is not the world's. Number Three: The mind can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Religion is lived by people who are afraid of hell. Spirituality is lived by people who have been through hell.

It's heaven all the way to heaven. And it's hell all the way to hell. Not later, but now.

Thus we are strongly warned against such negativity in every way, and such things are called "sin" or even the state of "hell," which is not really a geographical place but a very real state of consciousness. All rewards and punishments must primarily be seen as first of all now—and inherent in good and bad behavior.

Threats of hell are unfortunately more memorable to people than promises of heaven.

Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell; spirituality is for those who have been there.

While life on earth offers many choices, eternity offers only two: heaven or hell. Your relationship to God on earth will determine your relationship to him in eternity. If you learn to love and trust God's Son, Jesus, you will be invited to spend the rest of eternity with him. On the other hand, if you reject his love, forgiveness, and salvation, you will spend eternity apart from God forever.

While life on earth offers many choices, eternity offers only two: heaven or hell. Your relationship to God on earth will determine your relationship to him in eternity.

If hell did exist, which Jackson was sure it did, it would be governed by a committee of fifteen-year-old Italian boys on bikes.

The sun shone cheerfully, as on a fine day in hell.

Not that it was a hard country, but something you must go through a winter of to understand. But that's what you did not know. You knew the cursed look of wanderlust but you did not know the hell that lust was leading you into. You must go through a winter first. . . .

Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.

The power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if there's no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?

The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all," concludes Martyn Lloyd-Jones. "We deserve nothing but hell. If you think you deserve heaven, take it from me, you are not a Christian.