Quotes about Consequences
We are the sum total of all the choices we have made.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted and I have come to the conclusion that practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the futue. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.
— Aristotle
Lying to God is like sawing the branch you're sitting on. The better you do it, the harder you fall.
— Frederick Buechner
Know that neither to have the child nor not to have the child is without the possibility of tragic consequences for everybody yet be brave in knowing also that not even that can put us beyond the forgiving love of God.
— Frederick Buechner
If we use our lives for other purposes than those given by God, not only do we miss happiness, but we actually hurt ourselves and beget in us queer little kinks.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Repentance is not concerned with consequences. This is what distinguishes it from remorse, which is inspired principally by fear of unpleasant consequences
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
— Ellen White
The death of Jesus breaks the chain between evil actions and evil consequences
— Rowan Williams
He that sinneth, sinneth unto himself. He that is unjust, hurts himself, in that he makes himself worse than he was before. Not he only that committeth, but he also that omitteth something, is oftentimes unjust.
— Marcus Aurelius