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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.
As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
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