Quotes About Consequences

If you want to mess with me, you'd rather be ready for the consequences.

We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does the hurt.

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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

He prayed to goodness that the relationship might be reasonably remote. He remembered, anxiously, that a man may not marry his grandmother...

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil — there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Let's get one thing straight:when gangs of youth throw stones at passing cars,shout abuse at innocent people going about their daily business or beat up random passers-by,they are not doing it 'because there is nothing to do' they are doing it because it's fun and in modern day, punishment-free Britain, there is no reason for them not to.

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Honesty pays, but it don't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

The beauty of pragmatism is that it enables one to make judgements based on supposed consequences, which always lie in the future and are thus immediately unverifiable.

DWIGHT: Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying. Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.

Of course we're Criminals

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

Sin is the monster we love to deny. It can stalk us, bite a slice out of our lives, return again and again, and even as we bleed and hobble, we prefer to believe nothing has happened. In Jesus Christ we are forgiven and empowered to overcome sin...but toying with an animal that is actually toying with us is a sure way to lose part of ourselves.

Sometimes you don't realize you've crossed a line until you're on the other side and can't go back.

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.