Quotes About Consequences

If the children of Israel had heeded the Deuteronomic warnings, there would have been more milk and honey, and less misery and injustice, when they eventually crossed the Jordan.

The corrupting and corrosive lifestyles he describes are not arbitrary, but rather the result, the consequence, of the original idolatry. This doesn't mean that God is not involved in those consequences. God, as Creator, hates the idolatry and dehumanization that deface and damage his beautiful world and his image-bearing creatures. Unless that is so, God is not a good God, but a careless, faceless bureaucrat.

Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.

Freedom has its risks. Suppression of freedom, I believe, is a sure prescription for disaster.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

It is not worth harming an ant for the sake of this whole faithless world; why then should the intelligent offend God and men for the sake of it?

There was a very slight chance she might actually kill him that way, and if she did, she'd be brought up on charges. Unless, of course, she could prove harmful intent. She could see it now. See, Your Honor, he was going to f*ck me silly, make me like it.

Honor?" "Yes." "I'm going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn't let a man do to her.

Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?' 'By slitting his throat.

Do you have no sense of self-preservation?

Push me and I will. I'll get punished, but you'll still be dead.

He knew what he was. He knew what he was capable of. He also knew that if he broke her, he'd despise himself for all eternity.

People didn't always love who they should, or the ones who were good for them.

Raphael met Michaela's gaze. "If you could kill every single beautiful woman in the world, would you?" Her smile never faded. "In an instant.

she was a rare, beautiful gift. And such a gift, came the ice-cold reminder from the core of his nature, would only end up crushed and bloody and defiled should he attempt to handle it.

Remember that there are those in this world who will cross every line and feel no guilt in doing so.

But … no one had expected Kaleb to come hunting. No one knew they had taken what belonged to him. No one alive anyway.

That's your idea of teaching? I could've been splattered from here to Manhattan!

Abe wanted to grab on to that hope, use it to feed his hunger to fix the worst mistake of his life, but he knew the hope didn't belong to him. Sarah had told him to go. He had no right to challenge her decision, to fight to be allowed back in. He'd given up that right the day he'd lied to protect himself. The day he'd told her he didn't love her.

Lifting up her head, she kissed his throat. "How do you feel about carrying on a secret affair with the Guild Director?" She couldn't let him go. Not without a fight. "I prefer the world know full well I consider a woman mine." An uncompromising answer. "Secrets just come back to bite you in the ass.

Choices, we tell ourselves we have choices. So foolish are mortals. An amusement to the Fates.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. —Christopher Dawson, The Judgment of Nations (1942)

Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true.

dig your grave with your knife and fork.