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Quotes About Punishment

God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
~ J. I. Packer
It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
~ Anselm of Canterbury
God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of [the Virginia Tech massacre] is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed.
~ Fred Phelps
And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.
~ David Platt
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
~ Ramakrishna
Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.
~ Andy Borowitz
No mercy goes unpunished by the angry gods.
~ Critias
I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.
~ Madonna Ciccone
The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.
~ Jerry Bridges
God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.
~ Thomas Boston
Jonah saw God's will as punishment. Jesus saw God's will as nourishment.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
~ Emily Bronte
I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
~ Ernest Holmes
Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.
~ Philip James Bailey
God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
God will not pity them, but "laugh at their calamity." The blessed company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's righteous judgment, and sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.
~ Thomas Boston
When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
~ Truman Capote
One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.
~ Jean Racine
God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.
~ Jerry Falwell
It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .
~ Charles Caleb Colton