Hell

1. “It is the suffering of being unable (indeed, unwilling) to love.”  Dostoevsky (3/1/12)
2. Hell is like an eternal drowning. We need God more than we need air. (11/17/12)
3. "Hell is a freely chosen identity based on something other than God going on forever." -Tim Keller (7/11/11) 
4. “the ultimate safeguard of man’s moral conscience” (Pope John Paul II). (3/1/12)
5. "We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him. But we cannot love God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbor or against ourselves: "He who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him." Our Lord warns us that we shall be separated from him if we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren. To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called "hell."Pope John Paul II, Audience Talk, 28 July 1999  (7/14/11) 
6. “every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind is Hell.”- C.S. Lewis (3/1/12)
7. "As a man lives, so shall he die." -St. Augustine (3/15/12)