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Matthew 5:29-30, 7:23, 8:12, 10:28, 12:4-5, 18:9, 23:15, 33 25:46
Luke 16:19-31
John 3:1-16
"There is no doctrine that I would more willingly remove." –C.S. Lewis
"My thesis is that the practice of non-violence requires a belief in divine vengeance...My thesis will be unpopular with man in the West...But imagine speaking to people (as I have) whose cities have been first plundered, then burned, and leveled to the ground, whose daughters and sisters have been raped, whose fathers and brothers have had their throats slit...Your point to them-we should not retaliate? Why not? I say- the only means of prohibiting violence by us is to insist that violence is only legitimate when it comes from God...Violence thrives today, secretly nourished by the belief that God refuses to take the sword...It takes the quiet of a suburb for the birth of thesis that human nonviolence is a result of a God who refuses to judge. In a scorched land-soaked in the blood of the innocent, the idea will invariably die, like other pleasant-captivities of the liberal mind...if God were NOT angry at injustice and deception and did NOT make a final end of violence, that God would not be worthy of our worship." –Miroslav Volf
"I never met a single person who has a lively faith in heaven without a similar belief in hell. The height of the mountain is measured by the depth of the valley, the greatness of salvation by the awfulness of the thing we're saved from." –C.S. Lewis
"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'" –C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise." –Hitler
"I can never preach on hell without tears in my eyes." –D.L. Moody