Hell Fire Quotes

• Their bodies will be raised from the dead as vessels for the soul-vessels of wrath. The soul will breathe hell-fire, and smoke and coal will seem to hang upon its burning lips, yea the face, eyes, and ears will seem to be chimneys and vents for the flame, and the smoke of the burning , which God, by His breath, hath kindled therein, and upon, them, which will be held one in another, to the great torment and distress of each other.

  John Bunyan

  Eye, Fire, Wrath

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• I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Fire, Faces

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.707, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Just because you’re a Believer, doesn’t mean your safe from the Hell-fire.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Mean, Fire, Safe

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• Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Christian, Thinking, Flames

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• Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Simple, Fire

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• If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Fire, People, Hell

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• There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Fire, Law

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.

  Bill Hicks

  Atheist, Revolutionary Ideas, Suffering

  Bill Hicks (2009). “Love All the People (New Edition)”, p.239, Hachette UK

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• Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one minute?' How then will you bear Hell-fire? Surely it would be torment enough to have the flesh burnt off from only one finger; what then will it be to have the whole body plunged into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone?

  John Wesley

  Children, Fire, Lakes

  John Wesley (1827). “Sermons on Several Occasions”, p.370

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• The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thought Provoking, Religion, Literature

  The Screwtape Letters ch. 12 (1941)

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• The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires.

  Stevie Smith

  Fire, Dresses, Hell

  Arthur C. Rankin, Stevie Smith (1985). “The poetry of Stevie Smith, "little girl lost"”, Barnes & Noble Imports

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• Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most of my abusive mail - sentencing me to exquisite Oriental tortures and relegating me to hell-fire and damnation -comes from self-admitted Catholics.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Fire, Self, Catholic

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• The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

  Bill Hicks

  Revolutionary Ideas, Forgiving, Suffering

  "Rant in E-Minor". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1997.

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• More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Biblical, Law

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• We can preach the Gospel all day long, but that won't win souls. That won't win the hearts of the people. We can talk, try to theorize, theologize, reason, argue, debate, and spend time trying to prove that Jesus lived, but that won't win a heart. How often do we see the religious mindset that believes that the more Scripture quoting, the more yelling, the more hell fire and brimstone preaching, the greater the chance to win someone over for the Kingdom? Likewise, how often do we see people sitting or standing there listening in stone-cold silence or indifference?

  Todd Bentley

  Religious, Jesus, Believe

  Todd Bentley (2011). “Kingdom Rising: Making the Kingdom Real in Your Life”, p.38, Destiny Image Publishers

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• People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat’s eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.

  Brigham Young

  Children, Eye, Men

  Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”

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• Riches and power, what is there more in the world? For money answereth all things-that is, all but soul concerns. It can neither be a price for souls while here, nor can that, with all the forces of strength, recover one out of hell fire.

  John Bunyan

  Fire, Soul, World

  John Bunyan (1841). “Doctrinal discourses [selected works].”, p.429

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• We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus' hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after death] judgment but to the very historic consequences of rejecting his kingdom message of reconciliation and peacemaking. The destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 67-70 seems to many people to fulfill much of what we have traditionally understood as hell.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Fire, People

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• Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such a fate, For that is my conception of hell-fire.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Wise, Wisdom, Fate

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1004, Jazzybee Verlag

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• [The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Ignorance, Fire, Shadow Of Death

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.161, SUNY Press

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• Nothing keeps people together like the exalted conviction that they alone are to be spared that eternal anguish of hell fire to which everyone else will be condemned.

  Polly Toynbee

  Fire, People, Together

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• Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Growing Up, School, Fire

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• As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

  Kin Hubbard

  Agony, Fire, Giving

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