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My belief is that 'heaven' and 'hell' are metaphorical terms for what you make of your life. In any instant, you have the ability to make your life total pleasure or total hell.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can't really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.