John Webster Quotes

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

As it was in the beginning, Is today official sinning, And shall be forever more.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one enormous and innermost perversion, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are too venomous, too underhand, too underground and too petty - I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.

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

Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

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

If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.

The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.

Come to your sense, madmen. Cease your bloody violence, for what you are doing is not only cruel, it is indeed satanic, and for it you will be subject to the fires of hell in the life to come beyond the grave, and to a terrible curse from posterity in this earthly life.

Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.

God is not pre-occupied with sin, He’s already dealt with it.

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

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