C. S. Lewis Quotes

Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.

I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all of my friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.

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

As for my religion, I worship Jesus.

The Church must introduce the individual Christian into an encounter with Jesus Christ and bring Christians into His presence in the sacrament.

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

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.

Many Christians believe that the vast majority of those created by God will burn in Hell for All Eternity. Many Christians not only believe the world will end soon, but are looking forward to it. I MUST WALK AWAY FROM IT ALL. IN JESUS' NAME.

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.

The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.

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.

It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned

The Christian church was designed to make sinners sweat. I have always believed that, and I still believe it. The messages preached in our churches should make backslidden Christians sweat. And if I achieve that objective when I preach, I thank God with all of my heart, no matter what people think of me.

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

The Christian take on Hellfire seems less dramatic than the Muslim vision, which I grew up with, but Christian magical thinking appeals to me no more than my mother's angels and djinns.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.

One reason, of course, as a Christian, I believe the Bible is the word of God. I take the Bible as the standard.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.