Aristophanes Quotes

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

I never went to church. The priests couldn't scare me with all that crap about hell, but somehow I knew, inside of me somehow, I knew that I'd pay for it.

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

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

Woe to those who die in mortal sin!

If one of you has seriously sinned, repent-now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance.

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

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

Then the old man's face hardened. "What about you young man?" he asked flatly. "Would you like to get what you deserve?" Jones let that question hang in the air for a moment, then sighed, shook his head, and said "Me? I surely don't want what I deserve. I'm hoping for mercy, not justice.

Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.

Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.