Quotes about Punishment
It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
— Emily Bronte
Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.
— Philip James Bailey
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner
— Francis de Sales
What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?
— Francis Chan
Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.
— Max Lucado
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
— Victor Hugo
Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
— Oscar Wilde
God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!
— Herman Melville