J. C. Ryle Quotes

I sing about heaven and hell, angels and demons.

Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.

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.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for an afterlife in heaven. In my teenage years, that became less important to me. Eventually, that turned into agnosticism, which became atheism.

I want to believe there's a heaven. But I can't not believe there's a hell.

Next, they'll say, "Do you want to go to heaven?" Have you ever had anybody say, "No, I'd rather go to hell." My friend, understand this, everyone wants to go to heaven. They just don't want God to be there when they get there.

It says right here you've got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you've only got to be yourself to go to hell.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

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

Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are these men who just dictate that this is how you have to live your life or you are going to burn in hell.

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

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.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.