Quotes about Reckoning
It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
— Anselm of Canterbury
May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.
— Psalm 69:22
Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.
— Numbers 18:27
The Resurrection is the emergence of the necessity of giving glory to God: the reckoning with what is unknown and unobservable in Jesus, the recognition of Him as Paradox, Victor and Primal History.
— Karl Barth
Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
— Psalm 73:18
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
— Jeremiah 7:20
Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.
— Jeremiah 15:13
Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worry about sorting it out later.
— Craig Groeschel
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
— JRR Tolkien
The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
— John Bunyan
Let the punishment match the offense.
— Cicero
For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.
— Numbers 23:9