Believe Quote by Francis Chan

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

— Mahatma Gandhi

God does not punish us for our sins but by them.

— Ruth Graham

God doesn't want us to obey Him just because we're afraid of punishment.He longs for obedience that comes from our hearts.

— Anonymous

Every punishment from God is pure justice and every blessing from Him is pure grace.

— Ritu Ghatourey

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.

— Ellen G. White

“Ever broken a promise you’ve made to God? Don’t you deserve to be punished? And yet, here you are. Reading this book. Breathing. Still…

— Max Lucado

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev

When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and…

— Lewis Carroll

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

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

— Elbert Hubbard

Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency do not permit anyone…

— Pope Pius IX