Harry Crews Quotes

Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, … condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.

The fear of Hell is a very powerful motivation.

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

I don't believe in hell. I believe in unemployment, but not hell.

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

I announce to you that your life is near its end; that if you obey not my words, you will go to hell, and this letter will be brought up against you before the judgment-seat of God, and leave you no way of escape.

I never went to church. The priests couldn't scare me with all that crap about hell, but somehow I knew, inside of me somehow, I knew that I'd pay for it.

The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.

The lake of fire awaits my lady

Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.

Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.

My theory is that there is no word that you can say or noise that you can make with your mouth that is so horrible that it will send you to burn forever in that lake of fire! It's not gonna happen.

This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.

I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy.

I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.

There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.