A Quote by Barbara Kingsolver
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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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.
The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things.
I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.
Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us.
God shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins.
God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.
You can't punish the middle classes for going to drama school - you need to punish the education system and the associative governments for devaluing the arts.
We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.
If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
The Human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves. Every time we remember, we judge ourselves again, we are guilty again, and we punish ourselves again and again and again.
For all the brave talk of Brexiteers that the E.U. needs us more than we need them, the reality is that they hold all the cards, and they are going to punish us for leaving.
I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.
God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us.
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