Quotes about Consequences

Woe to the world because of offenses. For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes. Matthew 18:7

Help me understand that sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception. Truth will never fail to return enormous dividends.

Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of negligent hands the house leaks. Ecclesiastes 10:18

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

We can find ourselves in the wrong place at the wrong time simply because we didn't do what God was telling us to do, or we neglected to ask Him what we were supposed to be doing before we made decisions. Or perhaps we asked Him, but we failed to wait for an answer before we went ahead and did what we wanted to do. So much grief can be avoided by living God's way.

But when our children are adults and making many decisions on their own without input from us, we see all the possible serious consequences of making the wrong ones. And we also see how we will be paying for those wrong decisions right along with them. When we observe life happening to our adult children in a challenging way, we want to help them. But how much is way overboard, and how little is not enough?

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they know nothing and think they know a great deal.