Quotes about Retribution

The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a widow. That same ocean rolls now; that same ocean destroyed the wrecked ships of last year. Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

I have no doubt that the lies Trump told on the campaign trail will come crashing back at him in karmic retribution.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Vengeance is God's. He will repay—whether ultimately on the Day of Judgment or intermediately in this life. The point of the story? God handles all Judahs. He can discipline your abusive boss, soften your angry parent. He can bring your ex to his knees or her senses. Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution. We give too much or too little. But the God of justice has the precise prescription.

God sleepeth not, and He will visit His judgement upon you. Better were it for you to have a millstone hung about your neck and sink into the sea than to be hated and despised of all men.

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

That death is not to be judged an evil which is the end of a good life; for death becomes evil only by the retribution which follows it.

God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.