Quotes about Consequence

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

As dead flies bring a stench to the perfumer’s oil, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.

The right thing at the wrong time will lead to failure.

You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.

Sometimes the most profound experiences of our lives start with an act so simple and careless that we hardly think about it - like tossing a small stone that causes a massive avalanche.

The greater God's revealed glory, the greater and swifter the judgment of irreverence!

Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.

Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.