Chastisement Quote by Anton Chekhov

“all these sentences to exile with hard labor, and formerly with flogging also, reform no one, and what's more, deter hardly a single criminal,…

— Anton Chekhov

“It's like this,' began the elder. 'All these sentences of hard labour in Siberian prisons, and formerly with flogging, too, do not reform anyone…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But the church, like a tender, loving mother holds aloof from active punishment herself, as the sinner is too severely punished already by the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There are three conceivable kinds of punishment—first, that of mere retribution, which I take to be entirely and only human—therefore, indeed, more properly inhuman,…

— George MacDonald

“This doctrine of forgiveness of sin is a premium on crime. 'Forgive us our sins' means "Let us continue in our iniquity." It is…

— Anonymous

“There are a great many ways in which, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts…

— Bertrand Russell

Even if the civil magistrate is so gifted as to prophesy in the church, yet in the sphere of his civil duties he is…

— Roger Williams

The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.

— Anonymous

“For the Christian there is no penal death in this world, much less any second death. He is completely freed from all the punishment…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they…

— John Bunyan

“Better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure, swift penalty along with it. There was purification in punishment. Not…

— Oscar Wilde