Quotes About Consequences

If we have a very strong commitment, so that we can trust ourselves and be beacons of trust for others no matter what the circumstance, then we're protected from suffering the consequences of many actions. We can be protected from that pain.

You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.

We used to call them the storm of the century but now we're seeing what happens if we don't act fast enough - and real human beings are suffering because of that.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.

When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.

Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.

It's the little things that find us out, the little things we refuse to do in order to avoid doing the big things that can save us.

All dreamers and sleepwalkers must pay the price, and even the invisible victim is responsible for the fate of all.

I knew that they were about to attack the man and I was both afraid and angry, repelled and fascinated. I both wanted it and feared the consequences, was outraged and angered at what I saw and yet surged with fear; not for the man or of the consequences of an attack, but of what the sight of violence might release in me. And beneath it all there boiled up all the shock-absorbing phrases that I had learned all my life. I seemed to totter on the edge of a great dark hole.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

We call it the moral sentiment. As we are, so we do; and as we do, so it is done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

Whatever a man does, good or evil, comes back to him someday. And he pays for everything.

Karma once done is never wasted in a crore of kalpas and one must enjoy or suffer the fruit of every deed. Evil karma gets one to hell, karma that is only good, to heaven. Mixed karma results in a human birth and the birth is good or evil according to the proportion of the mixture.

An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free.

Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but a second road ended at a sharp cliff around a blind corner, would you talk only about the safe road? No. You would tell them about both, especially if you knew that the road to destruction was wider and more traveled. In fact, it would be terribly unloving not to warn them about that other road.

Populating hell one image-bearer at a time

The fear of God is a profound respect for His holiness, which includes a fear of the consequences of disobeying Him.