Quotes About Punishment

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal, Leo says. They're not mutually exclusive.

You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong?

As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.

How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work that disagreeable thing is the only way of not suffering in life or at all events of suffering less.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Every time our cat tries to hiss she has all choked up. That's what she gets for being mean!

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

We must always remember that justice is not just about punishment. It is about healing, about reconciliation, and about restoring balance to our community. We must strive to find solutions that are fair and just, and that bring about a sense of harmony and peace to those who have been harmed (Kneubuhl 123)

Justice is not just about punishment. It is about healing, about reconciliation, and about restoring balance to our community. We must strive to find solutions that are fair and just, and that bring about a sense of harmony and peace to those who have been harmed(Kneubuhl 92)

We would all be in Hell if convicted of our thoughts.

Our teachers were firm believers in the corporal punishment that Americans had given up, which was probably one reason they could no longer win wars. For us, violence began at home and continued in school, parents and teachers beating children and students like Persian rugs to shake the dust of complacency and stupidity out of them, and in that way make them more beautiful.

If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.

We would all be in Hell if convicted of our thoughts. Have

Just because you don't deserve punishment for your thoughts doesn't mean you have to think only poor ones.

Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp)

With the standard time off for good behavior, I walked out the doors of the jail after eighteen days. That's what Razzle's life, and the permanent health of those other two kids, was worth, according to the judicial system.

God himself pursues them and throws them into the lake of fire.

As for those who reject the very idea that God will punish people with natural and "man-made" disasters, and kill thousands of people in the process, their problem is that they do not believe the Scripture at all,

God does not do a half-baked job at anything – what he promises, he delivers, and when he punishes, he goes all the way.

if you refuse to repent and believe, then one day God will take your life and throw you into the lake of fire. And you shall be numbered with the murderers, adulterers, homosexuals, slanderers, those who practice witchcraft, those who are the lovers of money and pleasure, and all idolaters and unbelievers.

Scripture tells us that God does punish sinners with both natural and "man-made" disasters, from the everyday mishaps and inconveniences to things like floods, earthquakes, plagues, famines, blizzards, and so on. All these things occur by God's sovereign decree and power.

To speak plainly, God kills these people because they are sinners and they deserve to die, and the time is ripe to punish them. Is not this the scriptural teaching?

And he will cast them out into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.