Quotes About Recompense

And now, said the unknown, farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good--now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!

Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

Be not wise in your own conceits.Recompense to no man evil for evil.

The Lord reward him according to his works.

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

So today no soul shall be wronged anything, and you shall not be recompensed, except according to what you have been doing.

hard work, shrewd planning and self-reliance or cooperation with a small group will in time bring recompense.

The crime is the punishment.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall recompense thee.'—Matt. vi. 6.

You see how every thing is denied to free will, for the very purpose of leaving no room for merit. And yet, as the beneficence and liberality of God are manifold and inexhaustible, the grace which he bestows upon us, inasmuch as he makes it our own, he recompenses as if the virtuous acts were our own.

in Augustine with this expression, - "God crowns not our merits but his own gifts; and the name of reward is given not to what is due to our merits, but to the recompense of grace previously bestowed?

The sin they do two by two they must pay for one by one.

what we do, good or bad, is returned in full measure in this life rather than in the hereafter.

I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes; to deny the rights of property is like cutting off the hands. To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work, of a voice in choosing those who make and administer the law, a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me

Punishment has been slow in coming, but it has overtaken you at last.

When thou makest a dinner or a supper," Christ says, "call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

Every action or inaction has a recompense or a consequence. Yes! thus, do what you have to do when you ought to do it and never do what you don't have to do when you shouldn't do it. ~Emeasoba George

I never had huge amounts of money when I was young. I had huge amounts of fame, and I always had the sense of labor and recompense. I always said I don't want to work for pay, but I want to get paid for my song.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

'Rectify' is really good.

You who bring good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the towns of Judah, "Here is your God!" See, the Sovereign Lord comes with power, and he rules with a mighty arm. See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him. He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young. (Isa. 40:9–11 NIV)