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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct
Punishment. - A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does. The
A sharp reproof sometimes is a precious pearl, and a sweet balm. The wounds of secure sinners will not be healed with sweet words.
There is no punishment man can bring down on another man's head more powerful than forgiveness
What's retaliate?" asked Aphasia.
"It means, kill most of the enemy, and let the survivors apologies.
It was time to make amends. Time to bring justice to the wronged. Time to bring punishment to the wicked.
Vengeance is mine, I will repay
The Revenge and the Vengeance makes you to go forward and forward to do your work... This which was taken, you should take it from them.
Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse
a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
Repentance is an internal shift
Revenge is the foolish stepbrother of justice.
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.
Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
Do not seek revenge and call it justice.
Repentance is a gift of God's grace.
Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Repentance is the biggest punishment of ideal man.
Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.
An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.
Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.
Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.
There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.
A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.
Revenge is like waves hitting the beach, the water is drawn in and sucked back into yet another wave, pounding and smashing its shoreline!
Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.
repentance, the response would be, "What do I have to repent for?" Everyone thought of
By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.
The implacable logic of retribution will prove as appalling as the crime itself, consisting of the soul's slow agonizing descent into a state of such loneliness and despair as to be finally indistinguishable from Hell.
REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Repentance means turning toward other human beings, our own flesh and blood, whenever they're oppressed, hungry, or imprisoned; it means acting with compassion instead of indifference.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.
There is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.
A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind
A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.
I love a little righteous comeuppance.
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before - consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.
Mma Ramotswe was right: evil repaid with retribution, with punishment, had achieved half its goal; evil repaid with kindness was shown to be what it really was, a small, petty thing, not something frightening at all, but something pitiable, a paltry affair.
Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.
I'm not forgiveness and redemption. I'm violent retaliation and vengeance.
Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace. Rather than interrupting the celebration, the gift of repentance is the cause for true celebration.
Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.
Revenge ... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
No fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.
True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.
It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn't mind if they skip a step and go directly to gratitude.
And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
Revenge proves its own executioner.
It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.
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Forgiveness achieves more than vengeance.
Relinquishing resentment is redemption
Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.
Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?
Karma and Hell are the cowards revenge
We often take vengeance long after the fact upon blameless surrogates, reprising the same sins of the ones who trespassed against us, and so perpetuate ad infinitum the pain we suffered at their hands.
Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.
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Revenge is a bittersweet fruit that leaves the foul aftertaste of regret.
There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Repentance restores your relationship with God.
Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please.
You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.
Remorse weeps tears of blood.
Revenge was a fierce calling from deep within his soul, a cry, a demand for due recompense.
Revenge is a feast for the
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He that does not repent, sins again.
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
Thoughts of revenge must give way to the need for swift action,
A fool will seek revenge, the wise man will allow God's karma.
There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.
Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart.
Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.
No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
An unjust punishment is never forgotten.
An eye for an eye.Eye-- Belle Aurora
Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.
Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.
Revenge is like a ghost ... It takes over every man it touches ... Its thirst cannot be quenched ... Until the last man standing has fallen ...
Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
The justice I have received, I shall give back.
The cycle of reprisal and counter reprisal that had characterized their national history had to be broken and that the only way to do this was to go beyond retributive justice to restorative justice, to move on to forgiveness, because without it there was no future.
A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content.
The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.
Karma comes back around.
Repentance is a change of willing, of feeling and of living, in respect to God.
Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
The best punishment for an enemy is forgiveness.
In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall.