Saint Augustine Punishment Quotations

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.