Quotes about Consequence

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

Where shame is, there is also fear.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

Observe, It is our duty and privilege to rejoice in God, and to rejoice in him always; at all times, in all conditions; even when we suffer for him, or are afflicted by him. We must not think the worse of him or of his ways for the hardships we meet with in his service. There is enough in God to furnish us with matter of joy in the worst circumstance on earth. . . . Joy in God is a duty of great consequence in the Christian life; and Christians need to be again and again called to it

The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

All right, then, I'll go to hell"—and tore it up.

Just at this juncture the boy felt a slow, fateful grip closing on his ear, and a steady lifting impulse. In that vise he was borne across the house and deposited in his own seat, under a peppering fire of giggles from the whole school. Then the master stood over him during a few awful moments, and finally moved away to his throne without saying a word. But although Tom's ear tingled, his heart was jubilant.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.