Quotes about Consequence
For if the soul, once delivered, as it never was before, is never to return to misery, then there happens in its experience something which never happened before; and this, indeed, something of the greatest consequence, to wit, the secure entrance into eternal felicity.
— St. Augustine
Hell itself is truth known too late
— JC Ryle
Hell is truth known too late.
— JC Ryle
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
— Mae West
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
— Henry David Thoreau
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Sin carries in it its own misery.
— John Piper
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
— John Bunyan
His face softened and he spoke in the gentle voice she'd grown so accustomed to. "I'm sorry I had to do that to you. But fear has its reward.
— Ted Dekker
I wish my countrymen to consider, that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual, without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
— Stephen Covey
The thing we fear we bring to pass.
— Elbert Hubbard