Bill Hybels Quotes

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

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

My views about hell are very traditional.

The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever.

Religion is a sham when it claims to reveal the secret of life and death, to possess the eternal supreme truth, when it says that he who does not believe shall be damned.

I probably take a pretty traditional view about hell. I'm not very contemporary in terms of that.

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

Do the atheists in Wisconsin realize they're going to Hell? Did you ask them that?

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

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

Jesus clearly taught that the majority of humanity will spend eternity in hell, and only a few will find the exclusive way to salvation.

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

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.

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

Jews, Christians, and Muslims all profess belief in immortality, but the veneration paid to the first century of life is proof that they truly believe only in those hundred years, for they destine all the rest, throughout eternity, to rewarding or punishing what one did when alive.

'The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

I sing about heaven and hell, angels and demons.

All different religions have laws based on fear, the fear of going to hell.

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

I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.