Quotes about Retribution

The anger of God proceeds with a slow step to avenge itself, but that it compensates for its tardiness by the severity of its punishment.

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.

Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow.

No man shall be the avenger of his own wrongs, especially by a deed alike interdicted by the laws of God and man.

The Crucified and Risen Christ uses the mistakes of the past to create a positive future, a future of redemption instead of retribution. He does not eliminate or punish the mistakes. He uses them for transformative purposes.

Once a person recognizes that Jesus's mission (obvious in all four Gospels) was to heal people, not punish them, the dominant theories of retributive justice begin to lose their appeal and their authority.

That as long as we keep God imprisoned in a retributive frame instead of a restorative frame, we really have no substantial good news;

Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God?

It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive." "No, God won't have the satisfaction that I shall," he returned.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

That truth, by the way, is why even the horror of hell is more the outcome of a heart that seeks to disown God and play God and live eternally with those who do the same than it is retribution against evil. C. S. Lewis once wrote that "there are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'"46