T. D. Jakes Quotes

My views about hell are very traditional.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

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

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

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

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

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.

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.

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.

If I believed in Hell, I'd definitely be going there.

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.

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

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

I live for now, not for what happens after I die. I'm going to hell, not heaven. The devil has all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns.

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

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

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.

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.

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

If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.

I don't think hell exists. I happen to believe in life after death but I don't think it's got a thing to do with reward and punishment. Religion is always in the control business and that's something which people don't really understand.

I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.

I've said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know ... I do not believe she went to hell.