It does not require a decision to go to hell.
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
O Lord, wandering with thee, even hell itself would be to me a heaven of bliss.
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
One of the horrors of hell is the undying memory of a misspent life.
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.
The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
The safest road to hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be — I hope it is — redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, ''Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus.'' I said, ''That's where I got my information about hell.''
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