Tracie Peterson Quotes

Then the old man's face hardened. "What about you young man?" he asked flatly. "Would you like to get what you deserve?" Jones let that question hang in the air for a moment, then sighed, shook his head, and said "Me? I surely don't want what I deserve. I'm hoping for mercy, not justice.

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

If I do bad, shoot me.

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Blame is for God and small children.

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

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

No action is without its side effects.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

Somewhere, sometime, somehow, some way these people will have to answer for their acts.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

All of us have made mistakes in our lives, but only some of us have had to pay for the mistakes. [By going to jail.]

If I do bad, shoot me.

Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate.

I think forgiveness is overrated, personally, because some things people do are unforgivable.

America just reaped what it had been sowing.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.