Quotes about Karma

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

I come here empty-handed, and I go empty-handed. My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

If every birth is a rebirth, and if every life pays for the previous life, then what were you paying for in your first birth?

Life is an echo. What you send out comes back.

Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

Edwin Markham wrote, There is a destiny that makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.17

Philosopher William Lane Craig reminds us that an infinite regress of causes is like trying to jump out of a bottomless pit. How do you start if you never reach the bottom? On the other hand, one might well ask, if every birth is a rebirth, what kamma was paid for in his first birth?

What we live by we die by.

To be wicked does not insure prosperity.

We will receive the fruits of any act we have done, whether wholesome or unwholesome.

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.