He endured all that hell is on the cross, so that you would never know what hell is like.

Lucifer wasn’t sure what to say. He’d survived six thousand years in Hell, but the past sixty without her were the most torturous of his existence.

It’s wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he’s having getting along with himself.

My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it’s to get heaven to people while they’re alive

I’ve always believed that the director does whatever the hell he wants. That’s what you sign on for as an actor – I can’t stand it when you have actors who are trying to leverage...

Each step you take from Jesus Christ, brings you closer to hell.

Religion does not care about your purpose or determination; it just wants you to live like hell.

What?’ He cried, darting at him a look of fury: ‘Dare you still implore the Eternal’s mercy? Would you feign penitence, and again act an Hypocrite’s part? Villain, resign your hopes of pardon. Thus I...

power of facing unpleasant facts.” True adulthood begins with doing just that, with renouncing comforting fables. There is something liberating in recognizing ourselves as mammals with some fourscore years (if we’re lucky) to make the...

The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

When people inexplicably dissapeared into thin air, it was usually because they had a new zip code. Something like 666

Choosing one thing over another doesn’t necessarily mean we love the thing we choose. If given the choice to eat spinach or broccoli, you may choose broccoli. It may only mean you don’t want to...

If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

It’s an unholy crusade against good people everywhere, all in my name. If I had a stomach, I’d be sick to it. You see now why so many good people just give up out there?...

I ain’t never had me a single round in a professional, boxin’ ring. I’m whatcha call a street fighter, a knuckle brawler. Knives, beer bottles, chairs, chains, rocks, sticks, tire irons, and even teeth. Ya...

Great robber though he was, Kandata could only trash about like a dying frog as he choked on the blood of the pond.

It must be hell on a writer who is introverted and doesn’t really want to talk to people,

To be honest with you, I sure hope so. They’ve got a hell of a team. They’ve got arms in the bullpen, they’ve got Barry Bonds back. Thank God he came back so late. He’s...

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour workweeks and you’re...

The Judgement is not a question, it’s a sure answer, as to a clump of dough, that will yeast and rise, or go in the oven and burn to crust.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

Life is hell. You don’t need a heart. All that is needed is to give into the dark.The heart is only required in the unreachable heaven.

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Through me is the way to the city of woe. Through me is the way to sorrow eternal. Through me is the way to the lost below. Justice moved my architect supernal. I was constructed...

Xas sighed. “But I don’t want to talk about God. Why do I? Sometimes I feel God is all over me like a pollen and I go about pollinating things with God.”Sobran opened his eyes...

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force… Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not...

You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the...

There is no hell; there is no heaven. In your mind, they are your own creation.

The Road to Hell.

Come hell or high water, Mr. Greenspan is going to keep tightening until he leaves. He has already proven that high water won’t stop him.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

Is hell the way to heaven? I think it’s the way to hell.

I once went to report on a village in Russia, a community of artists who were forced to flee the cities! I’d heard that paintings hung everywhere! I heard you couldn’t see the walls through...

Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard, however, since this endearing quality frequently masquerades as wit.

If my mom reads that I’m grammatically incorrect I’ll have hell to pay.

I’ve never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.

If only a horrible storm can demolish the castle of the devil, then let the storm be victorious! It is not uncommon that heaven comes after hell!

When you make a deal with the Devil, it can be Hell.

The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon ‘Hell and Damnation’—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment....

It’s something we all dread. It’s two minutes of hell.

age’s lust loose!

We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who will live after us. In our long lives we endeavored...

*For eleven years, I’ve been worked over and abused in ways you can’t imagine by things you don’t want to know about. I’ve killed every kind of vile, black-souled, dead-eyed nightmare that ever made you...

People love their hells because they keep them!

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the...