Quotes
Quotes about Punishment
The pleasing punishment that women bear.
Back to thy punishment,
False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time--
To let the punishment fit the crime.
The most frightful idea that has ever corroded human nature--the idea of eternal punishment.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition of human nature, esteeming life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity; this, Aristotle tells us, Silenus declared when he was brought captive to Midas.
My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Life is one big punishment, but, thank God, we don't have to bear more than we want.
Because you have cast off the troublesome burden of inconvenient belief in eternal and condign punishment you have not thereby changed the divinely ordained reality
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.
Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543 But in rejecting the [Bible's illustrations of eternal punishment] as grotesque and even immoral, many people make the mistake of rejecting the truth it illustrated (which is rather like rejecting a book as untrue because the pictures in it are bad). It is illogical to tell men that they must do the will of God and accept his gospel of grace, if you also tell them that the obligation has no eternal significance, and that nothing ultimately depends on it. The curious modern heresy that everything is bound to come right in the end is so frivolous that I will not insult you by refuting it. "I remember," said Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on one occasion, "that my Maker has said that he will place the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left." That is a solemn truth which only the empty-headed and empty-hearted will neglect. It strikes at the very roots of life and destiny.
It is possible that for a Jew nothing more was required than the assurance that his sins were 'remitted', 'blotted out'; he might thereafter feel himself automatically restored to the relation of favour on God's part and confidence on his own, which was the hereditary prerogative of his people. But it was different with those who could claim no such prerogative, and with those Jews who had become uneasy as to the grounds of such a relation and their validityâin a word, with any who had been led by conscience to take a deeper view of the consequences of sin. So long as these were found mainly in punishment, suffering, judgment, so long 'remission of sins'âletting off the consequencesâmight suffice. But when it was recognized that sin had a far more serious consequence in alienation from God, the severing of the fellowship between God and His children, then Justification... ceased to be sufficient. 'Forgiveness' took on a deeper meaning; it connoted restoration of the fellowship, the establishment or reestablishment of a relation which could be described on the one side as fatherly, on the other as filial.
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences.
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime. [It., Non nella pena, Nel delitto e la infamia.]
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. [It., Il reo D'un delitto e chi'l pensa: a chi l' ordisce La pena spetta.]
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. [Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
