Polly Toynbee Quotes

I announce to you that your life is near its end; that if you obey not my words, you will go to hell, and this letter will be brought up against you before the judgment-seat of God, and leave you no way of escape.

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

The devil, as a master of deceit, does everything he can to keep people from believing in the existence of a hell; but hell is a literal state of existence that will be the plight of all those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ.

Do the atheists in Wisconsin realize they're going to Hell? Did you ask them that?

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

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

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

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

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

A lot of people say, well how can a loving God send anyone to hell? First of all God doesn't send anyone to hell. If we go to hell, it's by our own choice. But when somebody says to me, how can a loving God allow anyone to go to hell, I'll turn around and say, "Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?"

He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.

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.

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.

I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.

The Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, also Jews, heretics, and schismatics can ever be partakers of eternal life, but that they are to go into the eternal fire 'which was prepared for the devil and his angels' (Mt. 25:41) unless before death they are joined with Her... No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ can be saved unless they abide within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.

My theory is that there is no word that you can say or noise that you can make with your mouth that is so horrible that it will send you to burn forever in that lake of fire! It's not gonna happen.

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.

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He starts condemning people, he starts humiliating people.

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.

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

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

Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell.

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.