Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

The man who remains in his sin will be damned just as surely as the sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

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.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

The devil made me do it.

Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.

The road to Hades is the easiest to travel.

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.

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

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

Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.

I'd rather go to hell than be in purgatory...

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.

Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty.

I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.

You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.

My views about hell are very traditional.