Charles Fort Quotes

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

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

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 am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

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

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

Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it's simply meaningless. We don't live in order to die, we live in order to live.

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

If you don't love Jesus-go to hell!

The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow.

I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.

If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'

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

At great cost to Himself, God has made it possible for each of us to live with Him eternally. Those who reject God's offer of a heavenly home will be assigned to hell.

And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.

What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.

Nobody will be sent to hell for rejecting a gospel they've never heard.

If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

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.

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.