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Hell
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“Sinners desire Christ only for shelter. The Hebrews never chose their judges except when they were in some imminent danger. Godless persons never look for Christ except at death, when they are in danger of hell.”
“Surely, there is not a greater sign of a man ripe for hell, than this, not only to lack grace, but to hate it.”
“What is sin but a departure from God? And what is the doom of sinners but departure from God? Depart from us is the cry of sinners to God. Depart from me will be the cry of God to sinners.”
“Conscience which should have been the sinner's curb here on earth becomes the sinner's whip that will lash his soul in hell.”
“There is no remedy, but you must either turn or burn.”
“Too many, even in our nation and city perish and run blindfold into hell, for want of knowledge; and the most are without knowledge, for want of instruction.”
“A little sin may damn a man's soul.”
“God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.”
“God shall not pity them but laugh at their calamity. The righteous company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's judgment, and shall sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.”
“Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to Hell.”
“There are millions who would rather go sleeping to Hell than sweating to Heaven.”
“Men must not think to dance and dine with the devil, and then to sup with Abraham in heaven.”
“Then I saw that there was a way to Hell, even from the gates of Heaven.”
“The wicked in hell shall be always dying but never dead. The smoke of the furnace ascends forever and ever.”
“Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.”
“How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?”
“It is in fashion nowadays to go to hell.”
“Let it not be said that repentance is difficult. Things that are excellent deserve labour. Will not a man dig for gold in the ore though it makes him sweat? It is better to go with difficulty to heaven, than with ease to hell.”
“Either sin must drown in the tears of repentance, or the soul must burn in hell.”
“It is better to go to heaven with a few, than to hell in the crowd.”
“Compare sin with hell, and you shall see that sin is worse. Torment has its emphasis in hell, yet nothing there is as bad as sin. Hell is of God's making, but sin is none of His making. Sin is the devil's creature.”
“When you speak of heaven, let your face light up. When you speak of hell, your everyday face will do.”
“The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth.”
“When you plead the name of Christ, you plead that which shakes the gates of hell and that which the hosts of heaven obey.”
“If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell.”
“Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.”
“Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.”
“Many are now dropped into hell that have formerly presumed of their going to heaven.”
“None sink so far into hell as those that come nearest heaven, because they fall from the greatest height.”
“Of all men out of Hell, none more to be pitied than he who hangs over the mouth of it, and yet is fearless of his danger.”
