Quotes About Punishment

If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action

I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.

I can't bring myself to believe in a God with a personality like my own. I base that on the paucity of lightning attacks on people who deserve it.

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!

I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.

It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil; the devil doesn't punish you for behaving well, but God punishes you for behaving badly.

I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.

I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.

God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.

If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

When God is truly angry, He will not send vengeful angels. He will send Magdalena. Then take her away.

God punishes people, who belittle Him with their complaints

It's not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.

And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.

Can't you ever get off for good behavior?" "Sure, if I was ever good.

No good deed goes unpunished- Syn

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.