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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. -- Khaled Hosseini
To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage. -- Erich Fromm
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. -- John Calvin
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation." -- John Calvin
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline. -- Kamisese Mara
As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as the murder of a child or the murder of a police officer. The events of September 11 convinced me that terrorists also deserve the ultimate punishment. -- Howard Dean
Just vengeance does not call for punishment. -- Pierre Corneille
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals. -- Jerry Falwell
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness. -- Ernest Holmes
My goodness, the Democrats have just become the party of punishment, and they are carrying that to the extreme when it comes to health care. -- Marsha Blackburn
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
I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell. -- Kirk Cameron
The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same. -- David Knopfler
Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. -- Tina Brown
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties. -- Wilhelm Frick
The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook. -- Henry Rollins
The severity of punishments ought to be relative to the state of the nation itself. Stronger and more easily felt impressions have to be made on a people only just out of the savage state. A lightning strike is needed to stop a fierce lion who is provoked by a gunshot. -- Cesare Beccaria
I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me. -- Ron Rash
I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it. -- Ayelet Waldman
Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment -- Betty White
Was it your strategy to just take as much punishment as you could and then hope he would fall down? -- Larry Merchant
To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force. -- Hypatia
For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes. -- Cesare Beccaria
We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment. -- Pema Chodron
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God. -- Oscar Wilde

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