title: Preparation for Death: Considerations on Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell A Popular Abridgment
author: St. Alphonsus Liguori
description: "Death viewed according to the senses terrifies and causes fear; but when viewed with the eyes of faith it consoles and becomes desirable. It appears terrible to sinners, but lovely and precious to the saints."
zlib_text: **What will Hell be like?**
  
  
  **St. Alphonsus Liguori**
  
  
  
  
  
  Imprimi Potest: John N. McCormick, C.SS.R.  
  
  
  Provincial, St. Louis Province  
  
  
  June 15, 1959
  
  
  Imprimatur: ✠ Joseph E. Ritter  
  
  
  Archbishop of St. Louis  
  
  
  June 24, 1959
  
  
  First published in 1959 by Liguorian Pamphlets, Redemptorist Fathers, Liguori,
  Missouri. Reprinted in 1983 by O.B.I. Victory Mission, Inc. by arrangement
  with Liguori Publications, Liguori, Missouri. Retypeset and republished in
  1988 by TAN Books.
  
  
  TAN Books  
  
  
  Charlotte, North Carolina  
  
  
  [www.TANBooks.com](http://www.TANBooks.com)
  
  
  1988
  
  
  
  
  
  “ _And I saw a great white throne, and one sitting upon it, from whose face
  the earth and heaven fled away, and there was no place found for them. And I
  saw the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of the throne, and the
  books were opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by
  those things which were written in the books, according to their works . . .
  And whosoever was not found w