Sholem Asch Quotes

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

It is not only spirits who punish the evil, the soul brings itself to judgment: and also it is not right for those who endure for ever to attain everything in a short time: and also, there is need of human virtue. If punishment followed instantly upon sin, men would act justly from fear and have no virtue.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.

Every one shall die for his own iniquity.

If any fail to govern by what God has revealed, those are the wrongdoers.

Politicians may do as they please, so long as they violate no rule of right, no principle of justice, no law of God; but in no world, in no order, or condition, have men the right to do wrong.

If God doesn’t destroy Hollywood, He owes an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

Everyone will be judged one day, but it's not up to me to judge somebody.

Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.

Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and afflictions as well as all kinds of happiness of man, whether they concern one individual or a community, are distributed according to justice; they are the result of strict judgement that admits no wrong whatever.

The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.

When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.