Ronnie James Dio Quotes

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

I've never been much to believe that my Creator will judge me or anyone at their final days. I don't really know if I believe in going to Heaven or Hell.

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.

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

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

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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.

Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much of the barbarity with which man has treated man; and the deep division imagined by the Church between the human being, with his immortal soul, and the soulless "beasts", has been responsible for an incalculable sum of cruelty.

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

My feeling is, personally, I want to die first... because I believe that when you die, your soul goes immediately up for judgment - and I don't want my wife up there first. No, the judgment will be horrendous.

I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.

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

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.

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.

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

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

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.

God says he will never be satisfied with the infidels.

I'm spiritual, yes, but I don't think about Judgment Day. I don't think about an angry God.

I went to so many sleepovers where these parents were reading the 'Book of Revelation' before bed and things like that. I would listen to that stuff, and I would sit there and say to myself, 'If God is so great and so good, why is there this list of rules?' Like, you go to hell if you don't believe in him and hold him up above everyone else.