Matthew Henry Quotes

Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

You can't do people wrong. You can't do people dirty or put people's life in jeopardy and expect to walk away freely and just continue to live this happy and prosperous life. That's not how the universe and the way of life works.

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.

When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.

But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

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.

Hell and the law courts are always open.

The man who was excellent, I rewarded him well; who was evil, I punished him well.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

At the end of the day, on the day of judgment day when everybody be judged, you're going to get your fair share.

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.

I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me.

The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.