J. C. Ryle Quotes

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

And this reality extends beyond this life. Heaven is full of forgiven people. Hell is full of forgiven people. Heaven is full of people God loves, whom Jesus died for. Hell is full of forgiven people God loves, whom Jesus died for. The difference is how we choose to live, which story we choose to live in, which version of reality we trust.

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.

I'm a Christian - I really don't believe in UFOs.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do, the results I want to have with what God's given me, is to help as many people as possible get to heaven.

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

According to God's word, everybody at some point is going to be given the opportunity to know the truth.

The will leadeth us to God, or to the devil; it availeth not whether thou hast the name of a Christian; salvation doth not consist therein.

There are so many things in my life that would be completely not on within the conservative church. And yet I think of myself as a reasonably decent human being. With all sorts of flaws, you know, but still reasonably decent. If I did believe in Heaven and Hell, I would really, honestly, believe I was going to go to Heaven.

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.