Quotes About Consequence

Doctrine is a Theological Axiom, either consisting in the express word of Scripture, or flowing from them by immediate consequence.

If you trap the moment before it's ripe,The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe;But if once you let the ripe moment goYou can never wipe off the tears of woe.

The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

But the ifs of history: if Cleopatra's nose had been one inch longer,' he said, 'would Antony have lost the battle of Actium?

Save the world by torturing one innocent child? Which innocent child?

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

A vast amount of "social reform" consists in just this operation. The consequence is that those who have gone astray, being relieved from Nature's fierce discipline, go on to worse, and that there is a constantly heavier burden for the others to bear. Who

Many think they shall not pay so dear for an error in judgment as for a sin in practice. Yea, some have such a latitude, that they fancy a man may be saved in any religion—

The saddest consequence which attends the prosperity and success of God's enemies in the world, is their pride and blasphemy against God, his truth, and church.

He that believeth not is condemned already,' John 3:18. He hath his mittimus already to jail; yea, he is in it already in a sense—he hath the brand of a damned person on him.

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.

I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar…. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

RockChristopher: Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.

Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.

I wouldn't have gone to the trouble of hurting him if I was going to kill him

If a violent act is violent only in virtue of some antecedent violent intention, it is equally true that an intention to do violence is revealed only when someone acts violently.

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

Don't shoot, Colonel, I'll come down: I know I'm a gone coon.

You'll argue he was just Putting into practice The philosophy of eye for eye. Say what you will. I don't mind: But now we know Why Justice is blind.