Quotes about Punishment
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
— St. Augustine
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
— Tony Campolo
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
— Elbert Hubbard
Adam thus bequeathed us his death, not his sin … We do not inherit the sins of our fathers, even though we may be made to endure their punishment. Guilt cannot be transmitted. We are linked to Adam only by his memory, which becomes our own, and by his death, which foreshadows our own. Not by his sin.
— Madeleine L'Engle
What else is the electric chair or lethal injection than human sacrifice?
— Madeleine L'Engle
Papa used to say that wealth is a sin and poverty is a punishment but that God apparently wants there to be no connection between the sin and the punishment. One man sins and another is punished. That's how the world is made.
— Amos Oz
That's how God created us: wealth is a crime and poverty is a punishment, though the punishment is not given to the one who sinned, but to the one who hasn't got the money to escape the punishment. The woman, naturally, cannot deny that she is pregnant. The man denies it as much as he likes, and what can you do? God gave men the pleasure and us the punishment.
— Amos Oz
ABHORRING (ABHO'RRING) The object of abhorrence. This seems not to be the proper use of the participial noun. And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.BibleIsaiah,lxvi. 44.
— Samuel Johnson
It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.
— John Adams
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
— John Bunyan
God does not avenge certain crimes in this world, but postpones punishment to the next, to deal with them all the more severely; conversely.
— John Calvin