Quotes about Consequences

When god wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

Words are invisible, but if misused, can prove deadly.

All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and insist on having their own way.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner.

And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.

If one Egyptian tailor hadn't cheated on the threads of Joseph's mantle, Potiphar's wife would never have been able to tear it, present it as evidence to Potiphar that Joseph attacked her, gotten him thrown in prison, and let him be in a position to interpret Pharaoh's dream, win his confidence, advise him to store seven years of grain, and save his family, the seventy original Jews from whom Jesus came. We owe our salvation to a cheap Egyptian tailor.

I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those effects down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.