Hosea Ballou Quotes

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Every sin provokes its punishment.

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

Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

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

Eliphas never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice, that we do not know all our shortcomings for which we are punished, nor the way how we incur the punishment through them.

Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.

Evil gains work their punishment.

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.

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

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

Wickedness is its own punishment.

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

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

As we sin, so do we suffer

Every sin brings its punishment with it.

The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

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

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

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

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.