Quotes about Punishment

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins.

Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

Far different is the power of our sovereignty. It can interfere with no one's faith, prescribe forms of worship for no one's observance, inflict no punishment but after well-ascertained guilt, the result of investigation under rules prescribed by the Constitution itself.

Storms are not punishment for lack of obedience; oftentimes they are the result of obedience!

There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.