Quotes about Consequences

I was only just beginning to realize what a horribly destructive thing hate is, how it destroys inwards as well as outwards. I

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. It is much easier to steal one hundred pounds than to get it by labour or any other way.

Once we have embraced sin in this way and rejected our covenant with God, only a calamity can save us.

God does not avenge certain crimes in this world, but postpones punishment to the next, to deal with them all the more severely; conversely.

Rom. 7:10, that the law is turned into a source of ruin for us, not because it is evil but because we are wicked.

Now, if any one should object, that it is unjust for the innocent to bear the punishment of another's sin, I answer, whatever gifts God   had conferred upon us in the person of Adams he had the best right to take away, when Adam wickedly fell.

The question that preoccupied the Fathers was not to know if God existed or not - the existence of God was a "given" for nearly all men of this period, Christians or pagans. The question which tormented entire generations was rather: *how* he existed. And such a question had direct consequences as much for the Church as for man, since both were considered as 'images of God'.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.