Robert Duvall Quotes

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

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

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

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

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

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

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

The righteous pays for the sinner.

If any fail to govern by what God has revealed, those are the wrongdoers.

Your transgressions will be punished. Dr. DisRespect, you will rest in peace.

Everyone will be judged one day, but it's not up to me to judge somebody.

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.

I am grateful that I live in a nation where most believe that one's punishment should fit their wrongdoing and that ours is a nation that judges an individual by both what he has done and how he has changed.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

Redemption isn't giving a bank robber a job as a teller.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

The fact is you cannot talk about the love of God. The love of God has no meaning whatsoever unless you understand the judgment of God that all of us deserve.

The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.