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...

Severe punishment unquestionably has an immediate effect in reducing a tendency to act in a given way. This result is no doubt responsible for its widespread use. We ‘instinctively’ attack anyone whose behavior displeases us...

Kitalifa ni utiifu kamili, woga, umbali (kwa maana ya kuwa mbali na biashara ya mamafia wengine mpaka kwa makubaliano maalumu) na nidhamu ya kutoshirikiana na mamlaka zote za serikali. Ukishtakiwa kwa kosa la madawa au...

It was the third time this season he had been sent off, hence the heavier than usual punishment from the FA for two yellow cards.

Yes, sir.” I reply instantly. My voice sounds needy – already.

The capital punishment was carried out this morning at 10:30 am (16:30 AEST) on three convicts,

I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God’s candy.

Then I knew how good you were, to come to me, after all you had seen. The first hour they had me there, do you know what frightened me the most? Oh, it was a...

We’re protecting offenders from false accusations. ‘¦ We’re not stiff-arming anybody, and it’s not an additional punishment.

There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,’ she wrote. ‘A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is...

I’m rewarded, uh, I mean punished, with a slap to my backside.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.

It’s common to reject or punish yourself when you’ve been rejected by others. When you experience disappointment from the way your family or others treat you, that’s the time to take special care of yourself....

Sometimes a writer is punished by misunderstanding from what he had written…

If life is a classroom then you’re still in the learning process part. In the learning process part, if you make a mistake you can just erase it and try again. In a classroom your...

If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful,...

With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or future punishment, or as a storehouse of anaesthetics for those who find the...

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague as we of to-day have the happiness to...