Sam Levenson Quotes

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

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

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

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

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.

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

God will not forgive us if we fail.

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.

If I do bad, shoot me.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

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

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

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

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

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Many without punishment, but none without sin.

If I do bad, shoot me.

I never challenged the ICC verdict. This means I accepted my punishment. It is mentioned in Islamic law that you have got to be punished if you commit a mistake. What is important is that I have learnt my lesson.