" Some talk of it as an unreasonable thing to think to fright persons to heaven; but I think it is a reasonable thing to endeavor to fright persons away from hell, that stand upon the brink of it, and are just ready to fall into it, and are senseless of their danger: ’tis a reasonable thing to fright a person out of an house on fire. "

― Owen Strachan , The Essential Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to the Life and Teaching of America's Greatest Theologian