Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow.

If God doesn’t destroy Hollywood, He owes an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah.

In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.

The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.

God will not be mocked.

Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

If we consider how easy it is to elude the Laws of man, to commit unproveable crimes, to corrupt and divert Testimonies, to wrest the sense and meaning of the Laws, etc. there follows a necessity of contributing towards a public Charge, wherewith to have men instructed in the Laws of God, that take notice of evil thoughts and designs, and much more of secret deeds, and that punisheth eternally in another world, what man can but slightly chastise in this.

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

A material resurrection seems strange and even absurd except for purposes of punishment, and all punishment which is to revenge rather than correct must be morally wrong, and when the World is at an end, what moral or warning purpose can eternal tortures answer?

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard the march of civilization.

I choose to ignore hell in my life. When I was a little kid I asked my Dad "Am I going to go to hell?" because I'd heard about hell. And he said, "Nothing you're gonna do will get you into hell." And so I got to ignore it.

Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

I have known a great many men who have left this Church for whom there is no chance whatever for exaltation, but if their blood had been spilled, it would have been better for them. The wickedness and ignorance of the nations forbid this principle's being in full force, but the time will come when the law of God will be in full force.

This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

I have lived a carnal life. My view of life is 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!' I don't have to go through the thing of paying for it in the next life. I know I'm screwed in the next life.

Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.