Pastoral Resources

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.

I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.

Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.

Let's face it, writing is hell.

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

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

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

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.