Sermon quotes on hell
Javier Bardem
Heaven sounds boring. Maybe they let you go to hell on weekends.
John Calvin
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
Winston Churchill (attributed)
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
(Frequently incorrectly attributed to Churchill.)
C.S. Lewis
Both processes begin even before death. The good man’s past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven: the bad man’s past already conforms to his badness and is filled only with dreariness.
“And that is why…the Blessed will say “We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven, : and the Lost, “We were always in Hell.” And both will speak truly.”
The Great Divorce
C. S. Lewis
The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts
C.S. Lewis
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. Those who knock it is opened.
The Great Divorce
Bernard of Clairveaux
Hell is full of good intentions or desires.
Attributed in St. Francis de Sales, Letter 7
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Timothy Keller
Hell, then, is the trajectory of a soul, living a self-absorbed, self-centered life, going on and on forever.
The Reason for God, Penguin Publishing Group.
Soren Kierkegaard
It costs a man just as much or even more to go to hell than to come to heaven.
Jeffrey B. Russell
[Hell] is nowhere and has no characteristics, the fit dwelling for those who have chosen nothingness over reality.,
Mephistopheles
C.S. Lewis
The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.
The Great Divorce
C. S. Lewis
The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
The Four Loves (HarperOne, 1960, 2017).
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