Top 100 God Punish Quotes
#1. Kung asks the right question. The issue is not why does God punish sin but why does He permit the ongoing human rebellion?
R.C. Sproul
#2. You make the decision: Whom did God punish?
Louis Sachar
#3. Yesterday the paper had a "short" summary of the places where Jews are not allowed! I can better mention where they are still aloud: "in their houses and in the streets!" God, punish those who are persecuting the people you chose and to whom Jesus also belonged. -From the diary of Diet Eman
Diet Eman
#4. The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly
has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
A.W. Tozer
#5. Oh God, I'm sorry I bring trouble on people. I don't mean to, you know that, you know that. And don't punish me by taking Ned. Keep him safe that's all I ask. That's all I'll ever ask again, just keep him safe.
Catherine Cookson
#6. We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.
Albert Camus
#7. God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.
John Green
#8. We have an opportunity to correct ourselves when God does not punish us immediately.
Sunday Adelaja
#9. Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.
Thomas Aquinas
#10. There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.
Max Lucado
#11. Think of God not as a word, or a stranger, or as someone on high, waiting to judge and punish you. Think of Him as you would want to be thought of if you were God.
Daya Mata
#12. Today, God, help me to know that it is okay to allow myself to be human. Help me not to feel guilty or punish myself when I need to "fall apart.
Melody Beattie
#13. Government is to minister as an instrument in the hand of God to promote justice and to punish evil.
R.C. Sproul
#14. The longer he remained on this earth, the more he was sure that mankind had no clue about God or heaven. Not when they used him as an excuse to kill, to punish, to discriminate.
Amy Harmon
#15. God's original purpose for government was to punish the evil and reward the good.
William R. Bowen
#16. Mr. Gibreel Farishta on the railway to London was once again seized as who would not be by the fear that God had decided to punish him for his loss of faith by driving him insane.
Salman Rushdie
#17. God didn't have to punish him; he'd created his own hell. By himself and for himself.
Jennifer Donnelly
#18. And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!
Alexandre Dumas
#19. I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.
Wm. Paul Young
#20. The undutiful behaviour of children towards their parents is a very great provocation to God our common Father; and, if men do not punish it, he will.
Matthew Henry
#21. When God wants to punish us, he gives us just ourselves to care for.
Jonathan Odell
#22. God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
Barbara Kingsolver
#23. God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
Sophocles
#24. While one would like to say that God will punish those who do such things and that people often speak in just this way it was his experience that God could not be spoken for and that men with wicked histories often enjoyed lives of comfort and that they died in peace and were buried with honor.
Cormac McCarthy
#25. But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.
Jupiter Hammon
#26. And now,' said the stranger, 'farewell, goodness, humanity, gratitude ... Farewell all those feelings that nourish and illuminate the heart! I have taken the place of Providence to reward the good; now let the avenging God make way for me to punish the wrongdoer!
Alexandre Dumas
#27. If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
#28. I'm not as Catholic as I used to be. I find that I can't believe in a God who would punish anyone for the way he made them. A God who punishes is something mankind created as a way to hurt and control one another. God isn't like that. God is better than that, better than us.
Marshall Thornton
#29. God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.
William Ralph Inge
#30. I envy no man's nightingale or spring;
Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King.
George Herbert
#31. God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. God will punish the wicked. But before He does, we will.
John Green
#33. The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.
Rick Warren
#34. God and the decision he renders is correct. God doesn't punish anyone out of the blue. God knows what He is doing.
Mitch Albom
#35. I believe in God ... but I don't believe in religion. Religion is used to manipulate and punish. Used in a thousand ways for profit for even in the church, money is still the 'real' God.
V.C. Andrews
#36. If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
#37. Evil. Why does your God allow it? He doesn't keep evil from happening: all he does is punish the evildoer with eternal flames. Why doesn't he prevent it? Do you have an answer?
Jaume Cabre
#38. Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so during the life of man. it is therefore here below that the just must prosper and the impious suffer.
Kadmi Cohen
#39. Like, a flood seems like a great way to punish every living creature in the world except for fish. What the hell is a god supposed to do when all the FISH start being assholes?
Cory O'Brien
#40. Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us.
William Mackergo Taylor
#41. When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.
George Herbert
#42. Women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.
Martin Luther
#43. God does not punish us for our sins but by them.
Ruth Graham
#44. You bad birds,
But God shall not punish you, you
Shall be with us in heaven, though less
Conscious of your happiness, perhaps, than we.
Hell is a not quite satisfactory heaven, probably,
But you are the fruit and jewels
Of my arrangement ...
John Ashbery
#45. The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#46. Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.
Dwight Frye
#47. It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
Benjamin Whichcote
#48. Tyler did not believe in hell. He had decided, long ago, that if God wanted to punish them, there was infinite opportunity right here; hell would be superfluous.
But if there was a hell on earth, Tyler had certainly found it.
Erika Johansen
#49. He is not a punishing God, Lizzy. That is the mistake most people make, thinking He sits with an account book and a big fist, waiting to punish us. He is not a wrathful God but a loving God who made each of us and loved us since we were in our mother's womb
Ann Rinaldi
#50. Human nature, gentleman. It is original sin that leads men to misfortune, every time. I am a speculator in the market, gentlemen, and that is part of God's plan. Men only learn through suffering. So I punish human weakness, and God rewards me.
Edward Rutherfurd
#51. There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.
Agatha Christie
#52. In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.
Emile M. Cioran
#53. Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.
Andy Borowitz
#54. Dorothy wants to talk to you. Don't ask her to eat with us."
When Nora returned from the telephone she had a look in her eye. "Now what's up?" I asked.
"Nothing. Just 'how are you' and all that."
I said: "if you're lying to the old man, God'll punish you.
Dashiell Hammett
#55. What does God hate or punish except self-will? Let self-will cease, and there will be no hell. On what does that fire feed except on self-will?
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#56. People sometimes punish to exact judgment for past actions. God disciplines in order to teach and always in the interest of those whom he disciplines.
Max Anders
#57. No," I said. "There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I might concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so very busy punishing ourselves.
Agatha Christie
#58. If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.
Libba Bray
#59. I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#60. It felt like religious kitsch, as tacky as a black velvet painting, the kind of fantasy that appealed to people who ate too much fried food, spanked their kids, and had no problem with the theory that their loving God invented AIDS to punish the gays.
Tom Perrotta
#61. Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin.
The only vengeance worth having on sin
is to make the sinner himself its executioner.
George MacDonald
#62. He thought: Because when you tell a lie it must be to keep from saying a worse thing. Then lying is not a Sin and God will not punish you. (But what if God is one of them?)
Davis Grubb
#63. God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#64. Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.
Richard Land
#65. It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil; the devil doesn't punish you for behaving well, but God punishes you for behaving badly.
Jacob Bronowski
#67. If God doesn't punish America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.
Billy Graham
#68. Why would God create people with all these desires and curiosities and then punish them for trying to satisfy them?
Belle Blackburn
#69. The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.
Jerry Bridges
#70. And now ... farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
Alexandre Dumas
#71. Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
Albert Camus
#72. In the best case, notions of God's love and grace provide some relief - but the central message of these faiths is that each of us is separate from, and in relationship to, a divine authority who will punish anyone who harbors the slightest doubt about His supremacy.
Sam Harris
#73. God doesn't punish people who take their lives. They need him more than anyone else. - General George Patton
Scott Middlemist
#74. Burn? Smite? Punish? Why is your god so intolerant? So jealous? Why must there be only one god? Why is there not room for many?
Brom
#75. Give your false prophet a message for me. Tell him Jesus befriended the whores and the thieves and the sinners. Tell him his Old Testament God is dead. God doesn't punish the wicked and save the righteous. God is love.
Jennifer Bosworth
#76. The reaction of whatever you do will continue punishing you (hold you accountable). I do not have to come to punish you," says God.
Dada Bhagwan
#78. Mi hijito, I've told you a thousand times, if you speak badly of people, God will punish you and make you just like them.
Victor Villasenor
#79. Stop punishing yourself for things not accomplish yet in life. As long as there is life, there is hope. It is important for you to value who you are by the grace of God. Now, get set to improve that value!
Israelmore Ayivor
#80. Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.
Randy Alcorn
#81. The places in our personality where we tend to deviate from love are not out faults, but our wounds. God doesn't want to punish us, but to heal us. And that is how He wishes us to view the wounds in other people.
Marianne Williamson
#82. God does not punish people for being nonpacifists; war alone is punishment enough.
Robert Farrar Capon
#83. Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
Montesquieu
#84. it makes at least as much sense as belief in a god who will reward or punish us when we die based solely on whether we believed in his unlikely existence when we were alive.
Anonymous
#85. If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action
Robert Green Ingersoll
#86. You either have a God who sends child rapists to rape children or you have a God who simply watches it and says, 'When you're done, I'm going to punish you.'If I could stop a person from raping a child, I would. That's the difference between me and your God.
Tracie Harris
#87. Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.
Pope Benedict XVI
#88. God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
Albert Camus
#89. I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.
Ben Carson
#90. For a quick moment, I saw Grandma as she saw herself: a decent woman whom God, for unfathomable reasons, had chosen to punish. I almost loved her for her bewilderment. I almost touched her.
Wally Lamb
#91. It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
Emily Bronte
#92. Meneer, said the captain, if man takes unto himself God's right to punish, then he must also take upon himself God's promise to restore.
Alan Paton
#93. 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.
Max Lucado
#94. Punish you for what?" said Jack.
"Everything! Nothing. I don't know. That's the problem," said Holly. "That's what happens when you grow up the way I did. You spend the rest of your life just waiting for God to smite the shit out of you.
Sarah Dunn
#95. If I ask God to punish my enemy with vengeful prayers,
then He is fair to allow the enemy to do the same for me.
Toba Beta
#96. We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.
Joan D. Chittister
#97. But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
Victor Hugo
#98. Most people are accusing God, asking, "How can you punish sinners? How can you let good people go to hell?" But the question the Bible asks is exactly the opposite: "God, how can you be just and still let guilty sinners into heaven?" And the only answer to that question is Jesus Christ.
David Platt
#99. He did not live in fear of God because, he reasoned, a merciful God would not create us only to punish us for trivial earthly matters.
Nadia Hashimi
#100. God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.
Francis Chan
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