Thor Ramsey > Quotes

“My God would never send anyone to hell. To which we can reply, obviously not since your God is a magnified image of yourself.”
― Thor Ramsey, The Most Encouraging Book on Hell EVER

“Christians understand (or should) that life is not bound up in whatever makes them happy; it’s whatever makes God happy. The irony is that when you concern yourself with what delights God, you find yourself happiest. The Christian understands that he’s made himself miserable by trying to make himself happy. He’s made himself miserable by following his own wisdom. That’s why he has changed his mind about “following his heart” and now follows God’s wisdom in God’s Word instead. And in doing so he has discovered happiness as the byproduct of obeying God. People who love God find their greatest joy in making him happy.”
― Thor Ramsey, The Most Encouraging Book on Hell Ever

“Hell, the doctrine of eternal punishment, misery without end, or as it’s often referred to, “mother is moving in with us,” is not very popular these days.”
― Thor Ramsey, The Most Encouraging Book on Hell Ever

“hell and we eliminate something vital to God’s character, namely that our God is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29), completely holy, infinitely pure and righteous (Hebrews 1:9), a God who will not let the guilty go unpunished (Exodus 34:7). Eliminating hell changes who God is. Removing hell doesn’t make God more loving. It makes him smaller, more like us. Thankfully, the gospel is about the good news that God is holy.”
― Thor Ramsey, The Most Encouraging Book on Hell Ever

“When a marriage falls apart, it’s not just between a husband and a wife, and their children who grow up to be gang members. It affects other marriages. The strength of one marriage will encourage weaker marriages, and the fall of a strong marriage will discourage weaker marriages…”
― Thor Ramsey, A Comedian's Guide to Theology

“Ladies and gentlemen, might I remind you that Hosea the prophet married a prostitute for the sake of a sermon illustration. You think maybe we Christians might stay married to illustrate the grace of God? You’re a bonehead and God loves you. Go and do likewise to your spouse.”
― Thor Ramsey

“At the cross, we realize that God’s love and God’s wrath are not only compatible, but they embrace.”
― Thor Ramsey, The Most Encouraging Book on Hell Ever

“A low view of sin is indicator of a low view of God because it does not take sin against him seriously”
― Thor Ramsey, The Most Encouraging Book on Hell EVER

“…if you’ve ever witnessed the type of religious behavior from a Christian that makes you want to puke, Jesus knows just how you feel.”
― Thor Ramsey, A Comedian's Guide to Theology

“If you prefer a God without wrath, you prefer a God that winks at Dr. Gossnel”
― Thor Ramsey, The Most Encouraging Book on Hell EVER

“Jesus certainly expects more of us than our local churches do.”
― Thor Ramsey, A Comedian's Guide to Theology

“The simple person who applies the Word of God is often wiser than the smarter person who doesn’t know or apply the Word of God.”
― Thor Ramsey, The Most Encouraging Book on Hell Ever

“Thus many of the new revisers of hell contend that it is only remedial. In effect, you take a really nasty purgatorial bus ride, like Greyhound with a better destination. I’m sure it’s bumpy, and crowded with people who should never take off their shoes but do, and Keanu Reeves is driving and screaming about not being able to go slower than 50 mph or the bus will explode. But this particular hypothetical hell does have “good news”—once you see the error of your ways, there is an exit. My guess is that you pull the cord as an act of repentance, the bell rings, and as you hop off at the next stop Keanu says he was just kidding about the bus blowing up and hands you a transfer pass allowing you to jump on an express bus to the good and happy place.”
― Thor Ramsey, The Most Encouraging Book on Hell Ever

“…to be burdened, to ache for someone, a country, a people—to weep God into the lives of people, that’s the blessing of a burden.”
― Thor Ramsey, A Comedian's Guide to Theology

“I find it interesting that many contemporary preachers want to save people from the idea of hell, rather than from hell itself.”
― Thor Ramsey, The Most Encouraging Book on Hell Ever

“Wisdom is the right application to knowledge”
― Thor Ramsey

“Our society has lost the concept of marriage as an institution that is larger than any two individuals, primarily because the Church has lost this view. The stability of our marriages is important to society as a whole, providing structure, support, growth and children who won’t kill people.”
― Thor Ramsey, A Comedian's Guide to Theology