Billy Graham Quotes

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

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

One of the consolations of having orthodox, fundamental religion is that it provides a hot Hell for the Texas Legislature.

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.

If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

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.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

I do suspect that this world is hell.

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

I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.

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

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

One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can't really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal.

… cast into a burning hell

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.

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

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

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

The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.

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

Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.

I don't think there's a petty system of heaven and hell. The love of God is much more forgiving. I'm not a believer in a wrathful God at all.