536 Quotes About Punishment

Pain is never a punishment but purification process.

To me, many of what seemed to be Bible contradictions only pointed to the grace of Christ. It is not so much a rule book on how to be holy as it is a prophecy of the One who can make you holy. In this, I see God as the least bigoted of all in existence: While men always, in their hearts, delight in vengeance for being wronged, God is the only Being who wants to free you from the penalty of His own laws.

Faith is not the cause of the calamities that befall the world, it is oppression. The punishment for evil in faith is after death.

Heaven and hell may be a figment of imagination and a myth for a non-believer but they are quite effective in keeping people on the right track. Most people know how to avoid punishment in this world by circumventing the law and manipulating the system. However, they still fear God because they can’t manipulate Him. They wish to ensure their place in Heaven and avoid hell.

He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found his way to a solution of these questions in a conscious manner; now he could only feel. In place of dialectics life had arrived, and in his consciousness something of a wholly different nature must now work towards fruition.

The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

With regard to character and reward, society has its priorities completely backward. We who enjoy experiencing and sharing physical pleasure are stigmatized and criminalized. Meanwhile those who enjoy controlling, punishing, and otherwise exercising power over non-consenting others are paid large salaries at the public's expense. Often they are given special uniforms and called heroes.

Punishment is not something inflicted by the good upon the bad, but rather by the powerful upon the powerless.

And as the gods arestrange, and punish us for what is good and humane in us as much asfor what is evil and perverse, I must accept the fact that one ispunished for the good as well as for the evil that one does. Ihave no doubt that it is quite right one should be. It helps one,or should help one, to realise both, and not to be too conceitedabout either. And if I then am not ashamed of my punishment, as Ihope not to be, I shall be able to think, and walk, and live withfreedom.