Clive Barker Quotes

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

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.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

We came not here to view your works In hopes to be more wise, But only, lest we go to Hell, It may be no surprise.

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

You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved. And I still worry about it a little. I don't believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell.

In the Church of Scotland, Episcopalian, you don't have to believe in Heaven, but you definitely have to believe in Hell.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

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

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.'

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 I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

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

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.

When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone dies spiritually in the wilderness of sin, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

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

All that seems earth is hell or heaven.

Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken