Billy Graham Quotes

If I go to hell, then heavens to blame

Scripture sees hell as self-chosen. . . Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually chose. Either to be with God forever, worshipping Him, or without God forever, worshipping themselves.

Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.

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

Earth is heaven. Or hell. Your choice.

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

I'd rather go to hell than be in purgatory...

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how durst men forge our Saviour's words "eternal death " into so horrible a meaning? And even if he did use other words, and seem to countenance such a meaning for them (and what witness have we that He did, except that of men whose ignorance or prejudice might well have interpreted these words wrongly as they did so many others?

Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.

This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven.

All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.

There is no body will go to hell for company.

In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.

First, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors their choice. Hell is the ultimate expression of God's high regard for the dignity of man. He has never forced us to choose Him, even when that means we would choose Hell.

A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.

My views about hell are very traditional.

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

In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.

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.'