Douglas Horton Quotes

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

In the Church of Scotland, Episcopalian, you don't have to believe in Heaven, but you definitely have to believe in Hell.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

I used to just want so badly to have afterlife insured and make sure I was going to heaven.

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are 'justified by death' and all you need to do to go to heaven is die, but God’s Word certainly doesn’t give us the luxury of believing that.

I've got to make it to heaven; for going through hell.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

The only way to get to Heaven is to go through Hell.

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

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

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

If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may it please our Saviour to bring us all.

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.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.