Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

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.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

Evil gains work their punishment.

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

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

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

The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

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.

As we sin, so do we suffer

Somebody has been a complete ratbag all their life and they've gotten away with it, and they die happy and rich, we so much want to believe that they're going off to the halls of judgment, that their heart will be weighed against the feather of truth, that it will be heavy with sin and it will be eaten by a crocodile. It's almost essential to our well-being to have a fallback position like that. It may appear as if you've gotten away with it, but you'll pay for it later.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

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

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

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

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

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

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice can not sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest

Karma is karma. Karma is in life. You do the wrong things, you get the wrong things out of it.

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.

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.