Do what your body demands of you—attain glory, honor, wealth—and your life will be a hell. Do what your soul demands of you—attain humility, mercy, love—and you’ll have no need of any heaven. Heaven will be in your soul.
—Leo Tolstoy
Do what your body demands of you—attain glory, honor, wealth—and your life will be a hell. Do what your soul demands of you—attain humility, mercy, love—and you’ll have no need of any heaven. Heaven will be in your soul.
—Leo Tolstoy
If a person only thinks about himself and seeks his own benefit in everything, he’ll never be happy. If you want to live for yourself, live for others. Seneca
—Leo Tolstoy
If a person understands his life is in his soul and not his body, you can put him in chains or lock him in iron locks and he’ll still remain free.
—Leo Tolstoy
A person can live a good life only if he understands that he’s a spiritual being, united with all beings and with Everything. If a person understands himself merely as a physical being, he’ll live only for himself, and someone who lives only for himself cannot live a good life.
—Leo Tolstoy
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
—John Milton
What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he’s certain he’ll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?
—Voltaire
The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
—John Milton
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
—William Shakespeare
Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.
—John Milton
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
—Oscar Wilde
I know CHRIST is all in all. Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till GOD worketh in him to will and to do after his good pleasure.
—George Whitefield
Under the sword lifted high, There is hell making you tremble. But go ahead, And you have the land of bliss.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Hell is—other people!
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
—John Milton
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
—Aldous Huxley
Chasing after a guy who’s not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it’ll be.
– Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
—Blaise Pascal
The intrinsic evil and filthiness that is in sin keeps back the gracious soul from it: Abhor that which is evil; hate it as hell itself (Rom 12:9).
—John Flavel
All the devils in hell cannot break God’s Word. They have been at it six thousand years and failed.
—D. L. Moody
We are living in very strange days. Some people tell us it does not make any difference what a man believes in if he is only sincere. No greater delusion ever came out of the pit of hell than that. It is ruining more souls at present than anything else.
—D. L. Moody
Better to go to Heaven alone
than to Hell with the herd.
Charles Spurgeon
God’s regenerating power is greater than the strength of the world, Hell, or man’s wicked heart. He can draw the worst sinners to Christ.
Simeon Ashe
Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.
—Thomas Edison
They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
—Nikolai Gogol
He who sends, will protect us. All the devils in hell shall not hurt us, till we have finished our testimony.
—George Whitefield
The rulers of this world will endeavour to put you under bushels; but if your light is of GOD’s kindling, all the devils in hell shall not be able to extinguish it. Be not therefore, my brethren, weary of well doing.
—George Whitefield
The rulers of this world will endeavour to put you under bushels; but if your light is of GOD’s kindling, all the devils in hell shall not be able to extinguish it. Be not therefore, my brethren, weary of well doing.
—George Whitefield
Christ not only delivers from fears of hell and of wrath, but he gives hopes of heaven, and the enjoyment of God’s love.
—Jonathan Edwards