Sentence examples for hell lies from inspiring English sources

The road to hell lies in trying to figure out where that fits in with canon.

He knows that hell lies within; that we are all guilty, and that death comes to us all.

The sin against the Holy Ghost gets you there in one, though no one knows exactly what it is.The way to Muslim and Jewish Hell lies over a high bridge as thin as a hair.

Just as man has always made God in his own image, so he projected his own notions of fairness on to the world to come; and ended up with a real horror story.Going downGeographically, Hell lies "as far beneath Hades as Hades is beneath the Earth", wrote Pausanius, a Greek geographer.

Behind the Augustinian understanding of hell lies a commitment to a retributive theory of punishment, according to which the primary purpose of punishment is to satisfy the demands of justice or, as some might say, to balance the scales of justice.

[Editor's Note: This new entry by Thomas Talbott replaces the old entry on this topic by the previous author.] Behind the various Christian ideas about heaven and hell lies the more basic belief that our lives extend beyond the grave (see the entry on afterlife).

Buddhist teachers asked their pupils to imagine a cart loaded with 20 kharis of sesame seed, from which once every century one tiny seed was removed; yet when the whole cartload had gone, they would still be in the first Hell, and thousands of further Hells lay beyond it.

In Dante's hell, instead of the expected vision of a fiery pit, lies a frozen wasteland.

Anonymous accusations are risky and sometimes women lie about rape (Hell, people lie about everything).

They go singing, puffed-out with pride and optimism, unaware – unlike the viewer of course – of the hell that lies ahead.

-- so, sure, why not the gays that were once going straight to Hell? Herein lies the problem that I face with church and religion.