To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

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 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."

Hell is paved with good Samaritans.

Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

O Lord, wandering with thee, even hell itself would be to me a heaven of bliss.

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

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

It does not require a decision to go to hell.