Quotes about Consequences

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

There is one major flaw in the law of revenge, however: it never settles the score.

I cannot stop anyone from making wrong choices. I can only help them make the right ones." There was deep sadness in Ruwach's tone, rooted in love, as if he would have done anything to prevent Brianna from suffering the consequences of her choice.

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

If doing the bad thing never brought benefits, no one would ever do

Short cuts make long delays.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

Guess what? Grace is more powerful than consequences. Grace overwhelms consequences. Even with consequences there is love and grace and the mercy of God in Christ. Jesus says to us, "I know you messed up, and I know there are consequences, but I want to walk with you through the consequences. I want to love you through the consequences. And I even want to use the consequences in this whole big story.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

There is no thought, no word, no act, and no area of human life that is not affected by sin.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.