George Herbert Quotes

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

The mill of the gods grinds slowly but it grinds exceeding, small

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

Evil gains work their punishment.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

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

One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

I strongly believe vengeance is not mine; it is for God to decide.

I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

I'm not the judge of who that is, but I am a believer that no debt in the universe goes unpaid. If you try to buy early, you'll pay late.

There's a God of football, who makes you reap all that you've sown.

I believe in karma; what you do will come back.

Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.

Retribution is tricky. . . . The insult isn't usually worth the risk of punishment. And eventually one learns that karma has a surprising way of taking care of these situations. All you have to do is sit back and watch.

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

Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!

Life will let you get away with something for a while, but sooner or later, you will pay the price. Everything you do in life causes the effects that you experience. When you get the bill, be prepared to pay.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

God gives each his due at the time allotted.

Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.