Quotes about Consequences

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. Chapter Ten The felicitous idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke, that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew.

If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at itself and dies with the doer of it; but Good, never.

But it's wonderful,' said Mr. Giles, when he had explained, 'what a man will do, when his blood is up. I should have committed murder—I know I should—if we'd caught one of them rascals.

Who suffers by his ill whims! Himself, always.

Who suffers by his ill whims! Himself, always.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

So runs the genealogy of many another sin: idleness is usually the grandfather of the crime, whatever the father might be.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

In language that's hard for us to hear, Jesus says those a lineated from God will go " into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.