Hell Quotes - Page 31

• Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Reality, Bars, Care

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• Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.

  John Milton

  Fighting, Dark, Fire

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.63

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• Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
  Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
  Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
  And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
  Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
  To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

  John Milton

  Wrath, Heaven, Suffering

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 73

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• Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?

  Immanuel Kant

  Order, Miserable, Made

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• Salvation is universal because the love of God encompasses all. If God is God and if God is love, nothing is outside the love of God. A place like hell is thus inconceivable.

  Jacques Ellul

  God Love, God Is Love, Salvation

  Jacques Ellul, Madeleine Garrigou-Lagrange (1982). “In season, out of season: an introduction to the thought of Jacques Ellul”, Harper San Francisco

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• The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels who had ever labored for their salvation, and that Lamb who had redeemed them with his most precious blood.

  Isaac Newton

  Christian, Angel, Blood

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• They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for differing with him on the subject of the Trinity. They say that God says to me, "Forgive your enemies." I say, "I do;" but he says, "I will damn mine." God should be consistent. If he wants me to forgive my enemies he should forgive his. I am asked to forgive enemies who can hurt me. God is only asked to forgive enemies who cannot hurt him. He certainly ought to be as generous as he asks us to be.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hurt, Men, Forgiving

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• Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.

  John Calvin

  Children, Fall, Together

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• God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Race, Religion, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.905, Library of Alexandria

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• I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Believe, Ninety Nine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.290, Library of Alexandria

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• Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.

  William Blackstone

  Punishment, People, Crime

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• Think of Jonathan Edwards who thundered the terrors of God and what Hell was like until men grasped their seats and hung on to them, fearing they were falling into Hell itself. Men were moved by fear to escape damnation. That was believed to be Christianity. Why any coward wanted to keep out of Hell. He might not have had one idea in his soul of what was the real true earmark of Christianity.

  John G. Lake

  Real, Fall, Men

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• (Those who) impute such actions to God, as make Him resemble the worst of beings, and so run into downright Demonism.

  Matthew Tindal

  Running, Action, Worst

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• The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we are not to have in the other world. We are to be so taken up with Jesus and angels, that we shall care nothing about our brothers and sisters that have been damned. We shall be so carried away with the music of the harp that we shall not even hear the wail of father and mother. Such a religion is a disgrace to human nature.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Brother, Jesus

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• Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Imperfection, Religion

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with every drop of my blood, this infinite lie.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Lying, Hate, Blood

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• How anyone can believe in eternal punishment, or in any soul which God has made being "lost" and also believes in the love, nay, even in the justice of God is a mystery indeed.

  Claude Montefiore

  Believe, Punishment, Justice Of God

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• God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pain, Men, Heaven

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “Lectures: Including His Letters on The Chinese God. Is Suicide a Sin? The Right to One's Life. Etc., Etc., Etc”

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• There were days when the Church could club men into obedience by preaching Hell to them, but that day has long passed. The world has outgrown it.

  John G. Lake

  Men, Long, Church

  John G. Lake (2012). “Living In God's Power”, p.104, Whitaker House

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• I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."

  Robert Southey

  Believe, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• There are babies a span long in hell.

  John Calvin

  Baby, Long

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• The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Perfect, Doctrine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.

  Isaac Watts

  Flames, Soul, Bliss

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• Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and of life contains within itself an optimistic willing and hoping which can never be lost. It is, therefore, never afraid to face the dismal reality and to see it as it really is.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Believe, Optimistic, Reality

  Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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• 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

  Men, Heaven, Dry

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1884). “John Ploughman's Talk and Pictures; Or Plain Advice for Plain People: In One Volume”

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