Quotes about Sentence
Wherefore as condemnation is not the infusing of a habit of wickedness into him that is condemned, nor the making of him to be inherently wicked, who was before righteous, but the passing a sentence upon a man with respect to his wickedness; no more is justification the change of a person from inherent unrighteousness to righteousness, by the infusion of a principle of grace, but a sentential declaration of him to be righteous.
— John Owen
And though they found no ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have Him executed.
— Acts 13:28
So Pilate sentenced that their demand be met.
— Luke 23:24
The White Throne Judgment will be nothing like our modern court cases. At the White Throne, there will be a Judge but no jury, a prosecution but no defense, a sentence but no appeal.
— David Jeremiah
If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.
— Deuteronomy 25:2
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
— John Bunyan
They are already under a sentence of condemnation to hell. They don't only justly deserve to be cast down thither, but the sentence of the law of God, that eternal and immutable rule of righteousness that God has fixed between him and mankind, is gone out against them, and stands against them; so that they are bound over already to hell: John iii. 18, "He that believeth not is condemned already.
— Jonathan Edwards
But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.
— Ezekiel 23:45
Liberation is not deliverance. A convict may leave prison behind but not his sentence.
— Victor Hugo
whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
— Mark Twain
“The sentence is fair,” Shimei replied. “Your servant will do as my lord the king has spoken.” And Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.
— 1 Kings 2:38
What do you think?” “He deserves to die,” they answered.
— Matthew 26:66