A Quote by Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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Punished Sins Things Very Which

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Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Spanish - Poet
1021 - 1058

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

Hugh Leonard

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

Jennifer Donnelly

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

Walter Lang

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

Boyd K. Packer

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

Elbert Hubbard

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Kin Hubbard

There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it isn't. What they really want is to be punished for their sins, real and imagined - or for someone else's

Jed Rubenfeld

This is a key point which the secularists are missing: they think that stressing God's mercy means that sins are no longer sins. On the contrary, God's mercy is a great gift of grace precisely because sins are sins and they call for repentance and forgiveness.

Thomas J. Paprocki

Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?

Thomas Hardy

Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!

John Donne

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

Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.

John Donne

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

Iris Murdoch

We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.