William Law Quotes

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

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.

I do suspect that this world is hell.

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

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

Scripture sees hell as self-chosen. . . Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually chose. Either to be with God forever, worshipping Him, or without God forever, worshipping themselves.

Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

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

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

We are all born marked for evil.

God hates a half-devil ten times more than an arch-devil!

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

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

Hell is paved with infants skulls.

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to recognize: it is the world that prefers cold to warmth! What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night?

Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider... abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race.

If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.