Quotes about Retribution
If anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouths and devours their enemies. In this way, anyone who wants to harm them must be killed.
- Revelation 11:5
For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”
- Revelation 16:6
Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her own cup.
- Revelation 18:6
And there was found in her the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who had been slain on the earth.
- Revelation 18:24
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
- Confucius
Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.
- Joseph Heller
the descendants of today's raped and mutilated victims will arise to seek vengeance on the avengers.
- Philip Yancey
Forgiveness may be unfair—it is, by definition—but at least it provides a way to halt the juggernaut of retribution.
- Philip Yancey
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed" (Genesis 9:6; emphasis added).
- Dennis Prager
If I say, 'I forgive you,' I have implicitly said you have done something wrong to me. But what forgiveness is at its heart is both saying that justice has been violated and not letting that violation count against the offender.
- Miroslav Volf
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
When an offense occurs, a debt is owed. You have heard it said, "He'll pay for this." So forgiveness is like the cancellation of a debt.
- John Bevere