Rudyard Kipling Quotes

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

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

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

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

Sin is in, and so we begin.

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

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 am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

Our days are numbered, and God is just waiting for you to come back to him.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

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.

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

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.

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

I just hope I'll live to 60, and then I'll turn to the Lord and say, 'I'm ready for you now. I got all the time in the world to start making it up to you now.'

Each one of us sees Jesus in a different way. To some, He was prophet, for they needed to know the kingdom was at hand. But most of all, He was the son of God, and He came to experience the consequences of the curse the Father had put upon mankind when Adam and Eve disobeyed.

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

Jesus came to save us from our own sins.

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.