Quotes about Consequences

You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.

We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

The consequences of ignoring the Lord and His prophets are certain and often accompanied by great sorrow and regret.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

The person who gives expression, by word of mouth, to negative or destructive thoughts is practically certain to experience the results of those words in the form of a destructive "kick-back." The release of destructive thought impulses, alone, without the aid of words, produces also a "kick-back" in more ways than one.