A Quote by Jennifer Donnelly

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

Jennifer Donnelly

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Jennifer Donnelly
American - Writer
Born: August 16, 1963

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

Hugh Leonard

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Elbert Hubbard

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Elbert Hubbard

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

Kin Hubbard

If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty means responsibility.

Mike Cloud

Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.

Boyd K. Packer

Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.

Walter Lang

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

Arthur Helps

He needs to be punished because the law hasn't punished him. He's never done any hard time.

David Haye

If Britain doesn't stay in the Single Market or Customs Union, we are very much in favor of a free trade agreement between the U.K. and Europe. We don't want Britain to be punished for its decision to leave, and it is not in our interests for Britain to be punished because we may be the ones who lose out as much if not more than them.

Leo Varadkar

I don't believe that you should punish the people of Iraq because you don't like their leader. Saddam Hussein is not being punished. He's fat, and he is eating enough food and living in palaces. But his people are punished by denying them food and medicine.

Mahathir Mohamad

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.

Philip Sidney

No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.

P. G. Wodehouse

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn't or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

Virat Kohli

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, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

Thomas Szasz

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