Grew Quote by Jim Gaffigan

I never got the idea of a punishing God, just a really boring one. To see people growing up in the Carolinas who were…

— David Sedaris

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.

— Madonna Ciccone

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.

— Jerry Bridges

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

— Anonymous

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

You make the decision: Whom did God punish?

— Louis Sachar

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.

— Peter Winter