J. C. Ryle Quotes

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

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

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

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

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

In a very Christian way, as far as I’m concerned, he can go to hell.

Jews, Christians, and Muslims all profess belief in immortality, but the veneration paid to the first century of life is proof that they truly believe only in those hundred years, for they destine all the rest, throughout eternity, to rewarding or punishing what one did when alive.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

I'm spiritual, yes, but I don't think about Judgment Day. I don't think about an angry God.

I've never been much to believe that my Creator will judge me or anyone at their final days. I don't really know if I believe in going to Heaven or Hell.

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

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.

The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.

In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and the love of God is not so deep as hell.

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

... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

I do believe in hell. Jesus spoke more about hell than heaven - I trust him as the authority, not you, me or anybody else. If hell is not real, then Jesus was a liar and God has a lot of explaining to do on His justice and things like that.

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.

If I go to hell, then heavens to blame

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'

I absolutely believe in Heaven and Hell. They're just like what the Bible says they are.

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

Nobody will be sent to hell for rejecting a gospel they've never heard.

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.