Max Lucado Quotes

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.

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

In a very Christian way, as far as I’m concerned, he can go to hell.

Agency, or the power to choose, was ours as spirit children of our Creator before the world was. It is a gift from God, nearly as precious as life itself. Often, however, agency is misunderstood. While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequence of those choices. We are free to take drugs or not. But once we choose to use a habit-forming drug, we are bound to the consequences of that choice. Addiction surrenders later freedom to choose.

There is no body will go to hell for company.

Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.

It says right here you've got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you've only got to be yourself to go to hell.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

A lot of people say, well how can a loving God send anyone to hell? First of all God doesn't send anyone to hell. If we go to hell, it's by our own choice. But when somebody says to me, how can a loving God allow anyone to go to hell, I'll turn around and say, "Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?"

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

What Paul is clearly saying is that if anyone is worthy of being saved, they will be saved. At that point many Christians get very anxious, saying that absolutely no one is worthy of being saved. The implication of that is that a person can be almost totally good, but miss the message about Jesus, and be sent to hell. What kind of a God would do that? I am not going to stand in the way of anyone whom God wants to save. I am not going to say 'he can't save them.' I am happy for God to save anyone he wants in any way he can. It is possible for someone who does not know Jesus to be saved.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.

If I go to hell, then heavens to blame

I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow.

I was talking to Jesus, and I said, Jesus, I feel like no one will ever accept me. And Jesus looked at me and said, You know what my theory is? Accept me or go to hell.

If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.

Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'

The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.

Here's something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, "Why should I let you into heaven?" how would you answer?

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.

You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

Nobody will be sent to hell for rejecting a gospel they've never heard.