Quotes about Consequence

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

The refusal to love is hell.

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.

Woe to those who die in mortal sin!

Whatever happens, happens rightly. Watch closely, and you will find this true. In the succession of events there is not mere sequence alone, but an order that is just right, as from the hand of one who dispense to their due.

Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?

a distinction has gradually sprung up between what is expedient and what is right. But the implication that something can be right without being expedient, or expedient without being right, is the most pernicious error that could possibly be introduced into human life.

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.

Ill take care of it, Luke said. And because he said it instead of her, I knew it meant kill. That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before. You do that first, in your head, and then you make it real. So thats how they do it, I thought. I seemed never to have known that before.