Quotes About Consequences

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

You don't sit around looking for reasons to do the right thing; it's the bad decisions that require creative reasoning.

But in the areas that matter most, a burst of energy and activity cannot reverse the consequences that accompany a season of neglect.

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

Our greatest moral regrets are always preceded by a series of unwise choices.

Do you know why people are prone to make such foolish moral decisions? Because something always whispers to us that our situations are unique: Nobody has ever felt this way before.

In the critical arenas of life, you cannot make up for lost time. As

While nobody plans to mess up his life, the problem is that few of us plan not to.

It's deceiving but true that we rarely see any immediate consequences for neglecting a single installment of time in any arena of life. But if neglect becomes your pattern, you will eventually bump up against our third principle: 3. Neglect has a cumulative effect. You

None of us plan--or intend--to get into trouble. The problem is, we don't plan not to.

There is a cumulative value to investing small amounts of time in certain activities over a long period. • There are rarely any immediate consequences for neglecting single installments of time in any arena of life. • Neglect has a cumulative effect. • There is no cumulative value to the urgent things we allow to interfere with the important things. If all of this is true, and time equals life, what is the wise thing to do as it relates to your time? My

Christians start talking about forgiveness as if somehow forgiveness serves as an escape hatch from the outcome of bad decisions.

As you evaluate your response to the risks involved in leadership, are you careful or fearful? Every next generation leader must wrestle this question to the ground. What you don't know can hurt you. As a leader, what you don't know can paralyze you. Are you consumed by thoughts such as these: What if it doesn't work? What if I'm wrong? What will others think of me?

Nothing has stolen more dreams, dashed more hopes, broken up more families, and messed up more people psychologically than our propensity to disregard God's commands regarding sexual purity. Most of the major social ills in America are caused by, or fueled by, the misuse of our sexuality.

It is amazing what can be accomplished when we wait on God to lead us out. It is equally amazing the mess we can make of things when we charge out on our own.

If there's an area in your life where you tell yourself, "I know this is wrong, but I'm going to do it anyway, and probably repeat it," Solomon would answer, "In that area of your life, you're a fool." And

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. —William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

He allows men to make choices. Just as He allows nations to rise and fall according to their actions.

Law serves as our tutor to shield us from the consequences of unbelief until the Anointed One comes. When He

gotten off easy, okay?" Lisa swallowed hard as her cheeks burned.

And mind you," said Dr. Ford, "I'm only doing this to please your mother and Lord Stoke. If you were my child I'd let you fester and gangrene, and serve you right. Did I or did I not tell you not to go near Stokey Hole?

She was the very embodiment of why a man should never do wrong by a woman. Revenge could be bloody awkward.

They would all be sorry... particularly the duck.

That, dillop brain, is what getting close to the Darke does. It makes you think only of yourself. It takes you away from people you care about. And now you don't have anyone to talk to and it serves you right.