Max Lucado Quotes

The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever.

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

Hell is God's Absence.

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

I do suspect that this world is hell.

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

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

At Westboro, the depictions of hell are extremely vivid. The only thing that changes in hell, according to the church, is your capacity to feel pain. As the capacity to feel pain increases, so does the pain. It's absolutely terrifying. I believed God was going to curse me for having left this group of people.

God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!

Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.

The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.

Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.

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 think that hell essentially is separation from God forever. And that is the worst hell that I can think of. But I think people have a hard time believing God is going to allow people to burn in literal fire forever. I think the fire that is mentioned in the Bible is a burning thirst for God that can never be quenched.

Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.

Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.

Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even in hell, in spite of their certain knowledge and contemplation of the absolute truth; there are some fearful ones who have given themselves over to Satan and his proud spirit entirely. For such, hell is voluntary and ever consuming; they are tortured by their own choice. For they have cursed themselves, cursing God and life. And they will burn in the fire of their own wrath forever and yearn for death and annihilation. But they will not attain to death.

As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

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