Randy Alcorn Quotes

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.

Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and afflictions as well as all kinds of happiness of man, whether they concern one individual or a community, are distributed according to justice; they are the result of strict judgement that admits no wrong whatever.

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.

If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.

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

There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.

I don't believe in hell. The idea that a supreme being would make hell is ridiculous. An eternity of pain that results in no learning, reformation or rebirth is a nauseating idea. It's one of the reasons I left Christianity. I simply could not accept that version of God.

And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but I will eternally damn mine. It seems to me that even gods should practice what they preach.

It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.

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

A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

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

I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

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.

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.

The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

My views about hell are very traditional.

I absolutely believe in Heaven and Hell. They're just like what the Bible says they are.

Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

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