Albert Camus Quotes

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

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

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

The people would be just as noisy if they were going to see me hanged.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

After my conviction, I was devastated. I had never believed that I would be convicted.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

No murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.

As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.

Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

As we sin, so do we suffer

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.

The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.