Quotes about Punishment

We give the devil permission to punish us because we think his lies are true. When we are tormented because of lies, we need a revelation of the truth of God so that we can break the steel bars of deception.

punishing people for their mistakes creates self-destructive ecosystems that invite demonic oppression.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

In my own terms, I am being punished for what happened... I am sunk into a state of disgrace from which it will not be easy to lift myself. It is not a punishment I have refused. I do not murmur against it. On the contrary, I am living it out from day to day, trying to accept disgrace as my state of being. Is it enough for God, do you think, that I live in disgrace without term?

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.