Quotes about Punishment

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

Far different is the power of our sovereignty. It can interfere with no one's faith, prescribe forms of worship for no one's observance, inflict no punishment but after well-ascertained guilt, the result of investigation under rules prescribed by the Constitution itself.

Storms are not punishment for lack of obedience; oftentimes they are the result of obedience!

There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.

Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty.

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.

It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.

And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.