Janet, in her conflict between alternate longing and repugnance, was not concerned with the laws and retributions of God.
Some unnamed fear, outweighing their dread of the retributions of Capital, possessed these men, made them supine, derelict in the face of their obvious duty.
We must never harbor the thought, or fall into the notion, that the retributionsof eternity are a wanton and arbitrary infliction upon the part of God.
That such retributions overtake those who violate the law of God, is not merely imaginary.
But God, in the just retributions of his providence, sometimes defeats the very end proposed to be obtained by it.
Hints are obscurely given of a Conqueror of sin, an Assuager of pain, an Averter of evil in this life, and of the impending retributions of the future life; but they are exceedingly indefinite and shadowy.
By what standard must our character be estimated, and the retributions of eternity be awarded?
God tries them, and proportions retributions to their moral state.
The world, and the communities into which it is divided, have their probation no less than persons; and there are reasons in which God enters into judgment with them and adjusts retributions to their moral states.
They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance: Thus, in the soul of man there is a justice whose retributions are instant and entire.
Secret retributions are always restoring the level, when disturbed, of the divine justice.
The retributions of a stern age were necessarily stern.
The one word refers to His love, His heart; the other to the retributions which are inseparable from the very course of nature.
But the unpardoned sins of a whole life, and the awful retributions of a whole eternity, come crowding into that point of time; and no human fortitude can stand under the crushing load.
Exact retributions are awarded to all iniquity here; so 12 Julian, lib.
What is the real character of the retributions in the future state?
This might be so, if all sins discords and retributions were bodily.
There is no time nor power in the instant of death, by any magical legerdemain, to turn away the impending retributions of wickedness and guilt.
The wicked go into hell by the necessary and benignant love of God, not by his indignation; and their retributions are in their own characters, not in their prison house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retributions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
