Quotes About Consequences

In American life, democracy and capitalism, despite their advantages, tend to erode the place of traditional authorities (families, religious faith, and other institutions), while putting new authorities (public opinion and market forces) in their stead. And that has consequences.

God respects our freedom. But he will not interfere with our choices or their consequences, no matter how unpleasant. As a result, the struggle in the human heart between good and evil

It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.

Stop!" said the Irishwoman. "I have one more word for you both; for you will both see me again before all is over. Those that wish to be clean, clean they will be; and those that wish to be foul, foul they will be. Remember.

When you join the most monstrous of killing organizations, when you carry its seal, you become responsible for its crimes.

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

What can't be forgiven?'" I nodded. "It's words. Words you can't take back

By your words you'll be acquitted, and by your words you'll be condemned.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Responsibility for the consequences of actions is not the price of freedom, but one of its rewards.

Such people are their own punishment.

Shoddy construction and inadvertent errors, intimidation and actual deception—these are part and parcel of industrial life. No industry is without these problems, just as no valve can be made failure-proof. Normally, the consequences are not catastrophic. They may be, however, if you build systems with catastrophic potential.

Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son.

Watch it now. You're taking liberties. Don't make things any worse than they are. Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

We shall seek the truth and endure the consequences.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

If I win, I win, and if I lose, I win because my responsibility is to obey God and to leave the consequences up to him.

Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.

Following one good to the end may be catastrophic, not because it isn't a good, but because there are others which can't be sacrificed without evil.

Revenge was personal as a rule. Otherwise it was pointless.

For deep inside we know that obedience to the Scriptures without concern for consequences is penetrating and painful. It requires us to die to self and follow Christ. It demands that we recognize the sin in our lives and that we acknowledge and repent of that sin.

But, the skeptic asks, what about the person who never hears the gospel? The apostle Paul tells us that all are without excuse because "what may be known about God is plain to them" (Rom. 1:19-20). We are accountable for what we know (and by implication not for what we don't know). And when we rebel against what we know to be right and true, we eventually pay the consequences.