Atheism Quote by Albert Einstein

I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment…

— Madeleine L'Engle

God never punishes his children in the sense of avenging justice. He chastens as a father does his child, but he never punishes his…

— Charles Spurgeon

Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.

— Mahatma Gandhi

God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most…

— Giacomo Casanova

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

— Albert Camus

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“It is necessary to recognize the difference between punishment and discipline. Punishment and discipline may seem the same when measured by the suffering one…

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make…

— George MacDonald

You make the decision: Whom did God punish?

— Louis Sachar