John Flavel Quotes

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

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

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.

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

If I believed in Hell, I'd definitely be going there.

It is evil to justify killing (unborn babies) by the happy outcome of eternity for the one killed. This same justification could be used to justify killing one-year olds, or any heaven-bound believer for that matter. The Bible asks the question: "Shall we sin that grace may abound?" (Romans 6:1) And: "Shall we do evil that good may come?" (Romans 3:8). In both cases the answer is a resounding NO. It is presumption to step into God's place and try to make the assignments to heaven or to hell. Our duty is to obey God, not to play God.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

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

But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.

A nation that turns it back on Christ and God's words of truth will inevitably regret it.

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.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

There is no sin but ignorance.

The will leadeth us to God, or to the devil; it availeth not whether thou hast the name of a Christian; salvation doth not consist therein.

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

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

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

My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.