Quotes About Consequences

I want you to know, Ruth, that it was impossible to survive our time without doing wrong. It was an evil age. If we had lived in a better time, then we would have been better people.

Who is this woman who preached of the "web of life" that all creation shares, but who warned that "the earth must not be injured, the earth must not be destroyed"—and that if humans misuse creation, "God will permit creation to punish humanity"?

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

It is a thing to be regretted (and prevented, if possible) that a whole nation should be ruined for the pride and obstinacy of its princes

He concealed his own misery, that he might draw them into the like: thus he still deceives sinners into their own ruin.

Uno absurdo dato, mille sequuntur – Admit but a single absurdity, you invite a thousand. The way of sin is downhill.

Those are marked for ruin who persist in sin, and are not ashamed of the abominations they have committed, Jer. 8:12.

People are ruined, not so much by doing what is amiss, as by doing it and not repenting of it, doing it and standing to it.

We are all undone, both ministers and people, if we must bear our own iniquity;

Those that are enemies to God's church are enemies to themselves, and, sooner or later, they will be made to see it.

Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked; what can be expected from unrighteous men but more unrighteousness?

He that speaks evil of his brother is said to speak evil of the law, and consequently of the Law-maker

People do stupid things because they mistakenly believe those stupid things will make them happy.

It would be lovely if we could gather up all the evil people and put them together on one island, leaving them to self-destruct in their collective sinfulness.

The abuse of something good does not diminish the good itself.

I'm not hurting anyone' is another attempt to avoid personal responsibility in a world where everything we think, do, and say affects someone, something, sooner or later. Your actions profoundly affect your inner reality, and sooner or later your inner reality will seek an outer expression through your words and actions or your silence and inaction.

Social media is like a drug that has been on the market for twenty years before they discover it is causing cancer.

The Chinese expected the white man to pay more for his burden because the British, the Pablo Escobar of imperialists, had forced them to buy opium from India in 1850 and had stolen Hong Kong.

taught many important lessons: to flatter one's opponent, to lay traps and to see them laid, to be bold and to restrain one's tendency to boldness, to appear naïve when in truth one is alert, to see the future many moves ahead and to discover that decisions always have consequences.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful, the Nature of man alone consider'd."67 Conversely, "nothing is so likely to make a man's fortune as virtue."68

Gibson has never had any qualms about doing things he damn well shouldn't.

Peoples bear the weight of curses longer than the princes who incur them.

God does not need to intervene directly to punish perjury, and the heavens may remain dumb. The wicked bear within themselves the seeds of their own misfortunes.

No nation permits herself to be coerced to the one crime that man cannot pardon. It is of her own accord that she hastens towards it; her chief has no need to persuade, it is she who urges him on.