Jo Nesbo Quotes

Sanctions are a very un-Christian weapon.

In a very Christian way, as far as I’m concerned, he can go to hell.

Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?

Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right.

If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God.

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

If God doesn't punish America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one enormous and innermost perversion, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are too venomous, too underhand, too underground and too petty - I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.

The righteous pays for the sinner.