John Chrysostom Quotes

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.

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.

Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.

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

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

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.

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.

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 would be well. All would be heavenly--If the damned would only stay damned.

The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.

All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

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

The degree and duration of the torment of these degenerate and anti-Christian people, should be no other than would be approved of by those angels who had ever labored for their salvation, and that Lamb who had redeemed them with his most precious blood.

The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.

If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in 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.'

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

I was at the Wal-Mart, which is where I think everybody goes eventually. If they die without Christ.