George R. R. Martin Quotes

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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

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

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

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

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

There are deeds, crimes that may be forgiven. But this is not one of them.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

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.

The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.

It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

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

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

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

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.