The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.
As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate.
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.