Punishment Quotes - Page 33

I hate jealousy. At least it's its own punishment; it makes me feel like hell.

With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains; The punishment is nought; that it is deserved Is all the pain.

Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

By creating false environment of a war on drugs, and cruel and unusual punishment with these crimes, 50% of our U.S. population is in jail without having hurt anybody, mostly for drugs.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod Campbell and based upon his reading of the letter to the Hebrews in particular, is that Christ offers up his life and death as a penitential act on our behalf, rather than as a punishment in our stead.

The sufferings and death of Jesus Christ are a substitution for the endless punishment of all who truly believe on Him.

No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions.

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.

The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging.

The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!

To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!

It’s seemed more like a punishment than a reward most days…” he said, his tone one of bitter resignation. Then his gaze lifted to meet mine, and his voice changed. “…at least until I found you.

God didn't overlook your sins, lest he endorse them. He didn't punish you, lest he destroy you. He instead found a way to punish the sin and preserve the sinner. Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.

Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals, no matter how favorable the circumstances under which the time is passed.

The only way I was able to defend myself was to be able to take punishment. Then I got a lot of respect. They said, "Oh, he's okay, he can take it. Don't hit him." The guys were pretty big, and I had asthma.

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.

When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values.

If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do we want the other person's reasons to be for doing as we request?