There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.

Give a man a fish shop and he’ll flounder.Teach a man to manage a fish shop, and he’ll learn to fill it!

You’d think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him,” said Miss Hillyard. “It didn’t pay, did it? Say he sacrificed his professional honour...

Of course, if I had misbehaved that day, my dinner was a salad made entirely out of iceberg lettuce, with water on top instead of dressing. It was like cabbage soup without the dignity.

With each impact you tell me that my body belongs to you; that I amyours to use, yours to punish and yours to screw. Your words are almost aspowerful as your hand. They leave me...

AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you.

The idea of death has been associated with the fear of the unknown, and the punishment or reward for our life choices. There is no punishment, and there is no reward. We punish ourselves instantly,...

Moreover, they who returned, if any, would be flogged, as seemed proper, after due examination. And though the news of their beatings might help all others to hesitation, ere they did foolishly, in like fashion,...

Most of them says”Forgiving is the big punishment”No.. Never… “Keeping quit is the biggest punishment

I guess I’m a glutton for punishment.

The law is that youmust livein the house you have built.The law is absurd: it iswritten down nowhere.You are uncertain what crimeis, though each life writhing toelude what it has madefeels like punishment.

Mrs. Scatcherd raps Dutchy’s knuckles several times with a long wooden ruler, though it seems to me a halfhearted penalty. He barely winces, then shakes his hands twice in the air and winks at me....

The bark on the tree was just a little softer.

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Readers who have owned animals will appreciate how difficult it would be to train a dog to play exclusively in his own yard, to fetch his sweater whenever he sees it is raining outside, or...

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.Desirous to avoid the pains of Hell, You will repent...

My name, is Sharden.

People debate over whether or not there is a literal Hell, in the literal sense often described as fire and eternal torture, which, to many, seems to be too harsh a punishment. If men really...

Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel’s book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is...

Steal not this book for fear of shameFor on it is the owners nameAnd when you die the Lord will sayWhere is the book you stole awayAnd when you say you do not knowThe Lord...

All that shameless groveling. no wonder ‘merapa wanted him to go. This was his punishment, a conclusion clearer than anything he’d witnessed since leaving Mira III. Would his father do that? of course he would....

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

Sometimes, not handing out the punishment when it is most expected is the best way to bring lasting repentance.

They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important – that they are important. You don’t get punished for doing something unimportant, after all.

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

…when it comes time for punishment for our sins, surely it’s only the person who’s done wrong who’s expected to pay?”Sister Agnes smiled, “Not even them, if they’ve accepted the Savior.

Bouncing a check results in a punitive fee from your bank, and the punishment is growing increasingly harsh.

All I can feel is your cock inside me, as it slides slowly in and then outof me. You are powerful and imposing as you begin to pick up the pace.You have become the centre...

The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion.

And in the sin of wantingalways to be right, the punishmentis knowing it isn’t possible.

Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.

Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime.

Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I’ve discarded a belief in right and wrong.””But the Almighty determines what is right!””Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is...

You can’t teach kindness with a whip, Janus.

But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in...

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for...

Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with...

If you do good things only because you fear punishment or rejection if you don’t, does it really count? Think about it. Are they real choices or are you being held hostage?

Are you saying that he deserves to die?’ I asked, chilled. ‘We all deserve to die,’ he answered.

God’s creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.

Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian...

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

[Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] … Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did...

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly....

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Y todavía los que no murieron bajo las chozas ni se rajaron los huesos bajo los árboles ni se desangraron bajo las cuevas, ciegos de miedo y de ira acabaron despedazándose entre sí. Los pocos...

People who excuse their faults and claim they didn’t deserved to be punished – there are lots of them. But those who don’t excuse their faults and admit they didn’t deserve to be spared –...

He’s bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated.In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in...