Sophie Swetchine Quotes

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

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

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

Nations cannot endure in sin.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

The magistrate has the right to enforce what he thinks, and he who is conscious of the truth has a right to suffer.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it..

If I do bad, shoot me.

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.

People shouldn't be punished for their wisdom.

Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

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

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.

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

It is a most just punishment, that man should lose that freedom, which man could not use, yet had power to keep, if he would; and that he who had knowledge to do what was right, and did not should be deprived of the knowledge of what was right; and that he who would not do righteously, when he had the power, should lose the power to do it, when he had the will.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

He who makes his law a curse, by his own law shall surely die.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

I feel like God gives you what you deserve. Whatever that time is, you get what you deserve.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.