When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world… Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. Matthew 25:31-34, 41
Hell was not prepared for man. God never meant that man would ever go to hell. Hell was prepared for the devil and his angels, but man rebelled against God and followed the devil. Hell is essentially and basically banishment from the presence of God for deliberately rejecting Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. > Billy Graham
Abandon all hope, ye who enter. > Dante’s Inferno
The choices of time are binding in eternity. > Jack MacArthur
The mission of Jesus cannot be defined without speaking of man being lost. > Henri Blocher
The wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous to reach heaven. > Josh Billings
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. > Old proverb
I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside. I do not mean that the ghosts may not wish to come out of hell, in the vague fashion wherein an envious man “wishes” to be happy: but… they enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded, and are therefore self-enslaved just as the blessed, forever submitting to obedience, become through all eternity more and more free. > C. S. Lewis
Fear not that your life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. > John Henry Newman
See also Isaiah 14:12-15; Luke 12:5.
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