Quotes About Punishment

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Ur. What is your ailment, then? When did it seize you? Cl. Above three hours ago; and I brought it from the Palais Royal. Ur. How? Cl. I have just seen, as a punishment for my sins, that villainous rhapsody The School for Wives. I feel still a twinge from the-fainting-fit which it gave me; I believe I shall not be myself again for a fortnight.

The Florence flood of 1333 was ascribed by clerics to God's wrath at the use of glass windows and other luxuries.

Dios castiga al pecador no en la medida de Su propia infinitud, sino en la medida de la fragilidad del pecador.

If in this present age we were to go back to the old time of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," there would be very few hon. gentlemen in this House who would not, metaphorically speaking, be blind and toothless.

Verily your deeds will be brought back to you, as if you yourself were the creator of your own punishment.

They asked for Plato's assistance. He told them: "You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God." ... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge.

Stupid people who harm other people take a karma loan from the bank of hell. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

According to the ideology of reincarnation, Earth is both your heaven and your hell. Everything is paid for and rewarded here.

God will not punish, or put the blame upon the innocent, nor allow the criminals to go free without paying the price of their evil deeds.

The king's commands cannot be challenged without the rebel paying the price for it.

Those who tried to refuse or go against the Will of God, like Jonah, had to pay the price of disobedience.

Poet Walt Whitman, a Civil War hospital volunteer who later interviewed pardon-seeking Confederates, remarked that "in any other country on the globe, the whole batch of Confederate leaders would have had their heads cut off.

His resolve always crumbled under the threats of guilt and punishment.

Other ideas, particularly the popular image of "God punishing Jesus," envisaged as a separate, noncovenantal abstract transaction, have come in to take the place of that all-important theme. Many distortions have resulted not only through that teaching but also, ironically, through teachings that, in reaction against the distorted view, have themselves proposed equally unsatisfactory alternatives.

Punishment is what would happen later, if this opportunity were missed: "By your hard, unrepentant heart you are building up a store of anger for yourself on the day of anger" (2:5). What we have in the present passage, though, is not a statement of how that punishment fell on Jesus, but rather a statement of how the sins that had been building up were "passed over." God has drawn a veil over the past, as Paul said in Athens (Acts 17:30).

There is no condemnation for those in the Messiah . . . because God . . . condemned Sin right there in the flesh." The punishment has been meted out. But the punishment is on Sin itself, the combined, accumulated, and personified force that has wreaked such havoc in the world and in human lives.

If Paul is hinting at "punishment" in this passage, it can only mean what it means in Isaiah, which has to do with the "servant" fulfilling Israel's vocation—and simultaneously with the "servant's" embodying YHWH himself, the powerful "arm of YHWH," to take upon himself the consequence of Israel's rebellion, idolatry, and sin, so that Israel and the world may be rescued

The passage has regularly been read as the vital move in the wrong story— the story, once again, of a "works contract" in which, to put it crudely, humans sin, God punishes Jesus, and humans are let off. This omits elements that were vital for Paul

The malediction is upon him even if the law does not exact it.

It was a white-collar crime." Illium gave her an odd look. "In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal.

También te intrigan los cuchillos? Por que si me tocas, te haré pedazos. Me importa un bledo que después me arrojes desde el balcón más cercano. Aquello pareció detenerlo, como si lo estuviera pensando. -No elegiría ese castigo para ti. Sería demasiado rápido.

I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.