Hellfire Quotes

“I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution, and I vowed that I would never go inside a church again.

[Eugene V. Debs, describing his teenage reaction to a hellfire lecture by a priest]”
― Eugene V. Debs

“The American people spend thousands of dollars to propagate the doctrines of the fall of man, the creation of the world out of nothing in six days by a personal God, vicarious atonement, absolution from sin by the shedding of innocent blood. This is the Christianity offered to the poor and illiterate of India...

Christianity has percolated through the layers of dogmatism and bigotry, of intolerance and superstition, of damnation and hell fire. It takes on itself the quality of these layers and imparts them to those that are received within its folds.”
― Virchand Gandhi, The Monist

“I don’t know why everyone
is still trying to find out
whether heaven and hell exist.
Why do we need more evidence?
They exist here on this very Earth.
Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasioun
overlooking the Damascene sights
with the wind carrying Qabbani’s
dulcet words all around you.
And hell is only four hours away
in Aleppo where children’s cries
drown out the explosions of mortar bombs
until they lose their voice,
their families, and their limbs.
Yes, hell certainly does exist
right now, at this moment,
as I pen this poem. And all we’re doing
to extinguish this hellfire
is sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing.
Tell me: what exactly does that make
us? Are we any better than the
gatekeepers of hell?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Same result, only I'd be steam-cooked instead of roasted.”
― Jim Butcher, Skin Game

“A prison will appear like heaven to those who are in hell.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Accordingly, it must and dare not be considered a trifling matter but a most serious one to seek counsel against this and to save our souls from the Jews, that is, from the devil and from eternal death. My advice, as I said earlier, is:

First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss in sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire. That would demonstrate to God our serious resolve and be evidence to all the world that it was in ignorance that we tolerated such houses, in which the Jews have reviled God, our dear Creator and Father, and his Son most shamefully up till now but that we have now given them their due reward.”
― Martin Luther, The Jews and Their Lies

“He was my father, darling, but I have to confess I didn’t like him very much.”
― John Saul, Hellfire

“Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh?”
― John Saul, Hellfire

“I do know that no matter what we go through, we can always find and project the good rather than falling to the hellfire the devil has placed around us.”
― K. Weikel, Replay: Ghost

“If you are going through hell, you forget about hellfire.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Hell has no air conditioner.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov