Quotes About God Punishing You

#1. There is no such thing as Good: virtue is simply one of the many faces of terror ... terror of God's judgement, of what other people would say, of the law punishing any mistake

Paulo Coelho

#2. If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.

Tullian Tchividjian

#3. And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.

Alfre Woodard

#4. God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

Ginger Baker

#5. Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Alan Cohen

#6. Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

Mary E. DeMuth

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.

Jack Charlton

#10. As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

John Scalzi

#11. I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.

Jim Gaffigan

#12. I never got the idea of a punishing God, just a really boring one. To see people growing up in the Carolinas who were Baptist, I knew there were others who felt God was going to send them to hell for any little thing, but not me.

David Sedaris

#13. The safest place in life is in the hands of God, even when theyre punishing you.

Bob Coy

#14. Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.

Barbara Walters

#15. I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

Caitlyn Jenner

#16. The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.

Bradley Whitford

#17. Different people think of different versions of 'God' - a loving father or a fearful punishing ghoul. These are incompatible, irreconcilable - and you thought having 'one world religion' or 'one God' would unite humanity?

Christina Engela

#18. If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.

Neale Donald Walsch

#19. You gather apples in the sunshine, or make hay, or

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls, and everything changed in the first rehearsal.

Eric Whitacre

#21. The primary message of the Christian Church is that we were born in sin and we need to be rescued; we cannot rescue ourselves, so God comes to our rescue, pays the price of our sin and transforms us through the death of Jesus.

John Shelby Spong

#22. God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed.

Fred Phelps

#23. 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

#24. It's a showy habit I've got," I say. "To be always quoting poetry and stuff. Some of us use our brains, and some of us use our memories.

Barbara Trapido

#25. There should be a word for this feeling: spectacularity or burstsomeness.

Emery Lord

#26. -make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being ...

Aldous Huxley

#27. 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

#28. Oh, Addie," she said. "Were you punishing yourself, sweetie?"
"Oh my god," I said. "That is so not the right thing to say to someone about her new haircut!

Lauren Myracle

#29. At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son.

Lewis B. Smedes

#30. 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

#31. Experiment is the sole source of truth. It alone can teach us something new; it alone can give us certainty.

Henri Poincare

#32. God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night ... Was He punishing me with this meal or was He rewarding me? Did He actively watch me or take me for granted like a fish you don't notice until it's floating on the surface of the tank?

David Sedaris

#33. ...from this day on, whenever he sought to master a woman, whether by threat or strength or even with a look, the fear would flare and overtake him -- so wild and sudden it would drop him to his knees to cower in terror, gibbering for solace from his distant, punishing god.

Laini Taylor

#34. Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label "Senator Sleaze." D'Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. "There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues," he said.

William Greider