Bible Punishment Quotes

#1. I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.

Philip Yancey

#2. It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance.

Phil Vischer

#3. Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

Spike Milligan

#4. I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

Richard Cobden

#5. If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Steve Allen

#6. Education is lifelong learning adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments.

Israel Shenker

#8. The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

Elliott Abrams

#9. Nothing in this world can touch or affect the one who remains in the focused pure applied awareness of the Self, the Soul (shuddha upayogi).

Dada Bhagwan

#10. You do something annual every year, don't you?

George Noory

#11. Some people take drugs in a quest for spirituality.

Gaspar Noe

#12. The candle-end had long been burning out in the bent candlestick, casting a dim light in this destitute room upon the murderer and the harlot strangely come together over the reading of the eternal book.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#14. I'm astonished how little fright I have of my own imagination. It really does baffle me that I don't get more scared because I'm capable of thinking up things that are so awful. On any given day I can imagine the worst.

Robert Reed

#15. I always wonder how many potholes there are in the road less taken. I mean it's great to go where others don't, but is it maintained?

Neil Leckman

#16. I just rely on natural talent," said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much.

Richelle Mead

#17. The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.

Antony Beevor

#18. All children should be loved, protected, nurtured
emotionally and intellectually
respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated.

Augusten Burroughs