“People do not have to do something to go to hell; they just have to do nothing to go to hell.”1 – John MacArthur
“The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” – C.S. Lewis
“The unsaved people will be cast into utter darkness forever.” – Tim LaHaye
“I cannot preach on hell unless I preach with tears.” – Dwight L. Moody
“A lot of people say, well how can a loving God send anyone to hell? First of all God doesn’t send anyone to hell. If we go to hell, it’s by our own choice. But when somebody says to me, how can a loving God allow anyone to go to hell, I’ll turn around and say, ‘Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?’” – Josh McDowell
“The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded.” – C.S. Lewis
“What a compelling motive we have for prayer, for preaching, for soul winning when we learn that every responsible human being who leaves this world without a definite change in heart immediately lifts his eyes in Hell, tormented in flame!”- John R. Rice
“It is a very remarkable fact that no inspired preacher of whom we have any record ever uttered such terrible words concerning the destiny of the lost as our Lord Jesus Christ.”- Charles Spurgeon
“God keeps no half-way house. It’s either heaven or hell for you and me.” – Billy Sunday
“The whole extent of hell, the present suffering, the bitter recollection of the past, the hopeless prospect of the future, will never be thoroughly known except by those who go there.” – J. C. Ryle
“It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.” – John R. Rice
“Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.” – William Law
“Disbelieve hell, and you unscrew, unsettle, and unpin everything in Scripture.” – J. C. Ryle
“No one will ever go to Hell who has put his trust in Jesus Christ, but many will end up in torment who have trusted their own righteousness and reformation.” – Curtis Hutson
“Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.”- John R. Rice
“I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they’re counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they’ve never been born again.” – Adrian Rogers
“Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.” – Charles Spurgeon
“You are not going to be lost when you get to hell. If you are without Christ, you are lost right now. Your trial is already over. You’ve already been sentenced. You’re just waiting for execution morning to roll around.” – Lester Roloff
1 All of these quotes are from the website below:
Curt, please permit me to offer my thought-provoking view on the reality of Hell. It is to die without Christ and then spend an eternity seeking Him.
“Then He (Jesus) said again to them, “I am going away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” – John 8:21 (LSB)