George MacDonald Quotes

What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.

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

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

The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.

... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

The fact is you cannot talk about the love of God. The love of God has no meaning whatsoever unless you understand the judgment of God that all of us deserve.

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

To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

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

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's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.

It says right here you've got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you've only got to be yourself to go to hell.

History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

I don't think anyone is going to Hell, because it only exists in the minds of people who wish ill will on others.

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.

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

There are two evil futurities and one good. A miserable future existence is evil; and annihilation, or nigban, is an evil - a fearful evil. A happy future existence is alone good.

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.

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.

The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

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