Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason.

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

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

… cast into a burning hell

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, … condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I don't believe in hell. I believe in unemployment, but not hell.

This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church, fire burned in the aisles, and brimstone rained out of the rafters. From the evangelist's oven mouth spewed images of a place with pitchforks, and devils, and lakes of fire that burned forever. God had fixed a place like that because he loved us so much.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

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

The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever.

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.

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

Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.

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'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.

You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved. And I still worry about it a little. I don't believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell.

And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.