The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!
If there is a worse place than Hell, I must be in it.
Depressed by the Union defeat at Fredericksburg in January of 1963, Lincoln observed of the presidency:
The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.
God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.
After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession for a bad man to have. Who knows the metes and bounds of it? Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity?
A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have fallen drops of rain, since the creation, to this day, cannot wash away one sin. The everLasting burnings in hell, cannot purify the flaming conscience, from the least sin.
If God doesn’t destroy Hollywood, He owes an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah.
Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
If any man err from the right way, it is his own misfortune, no injury to thee; nor therefore art thou to punish him in the things of this life because thou supposest he will be miserable in that which is to come.
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have died in their sins, judged by your orthodox creeds, than there are leaves in all the forests in the wide world ten thousand times over. Tell me these men are in Hell; that these men are in torment; that these children are in eternal pain, and that they are to be punished forever and forever! I denounce this doctrine as the most infamous of lies.
Angel wanted them all to burn in h-e- double toothpicks forever.
God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell god damn your god damned family's god damned hellfired god damned soul to hell and god damn your god damn friends to hell.
It's because Jesus spoke so frequently about hell that the church should take the concept seriously.
Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.
Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.
HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.
In hell there is no retention.