Quotes about Consequences

Among young people... drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.

Some [young people] are taking pills called "heaven or hell" drugs, because you're liable to experience either one.

We make a mockery of God's forgiveness when we deliberately engage in sin because we think He will forgive it later.

The Bible warns us about "the little foxes, that spoil the vines" [Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV]. This is a picture of the way "little" sins can destroy our fruitfulness for the Lord.

God created us free to choose how we would live... but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences.

The Bible clearly teaches that when we turn our backs on God and choose to disregard His moral laws there are inevitable consequences. Furthermore it is not God who is to blame for the consequences, but the person who has broken His law.

Our problems boil down to one of moral choices. God wanted a world based on moral values, thus He created mankind with the ability to respond to moral choices. Faced with the moral option of living selfishly or unselfishly, people can and do make wrong decisions. We are free to choose, but we reap the consequences of bad moral decisions.

The beginning of all pain and suffering in the world started with one act of disobedience. Christian and non-Christian alike have inherited the consequences from our common ancestors, Adam and Eve—our polluted environment and flawed human nature.

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

O Lord my God, what a depth is that recess of Thy mysteries, and how far from it have the consequences of my transgressions cast me! Heal mine eyes, that I may share the joy of Thy light.

If you run out on Nellie, what will you say when you meet God?" George swore, laughed, shook his head. "I'll say 'Just send me on to hell. That's where all my friends are, anyway.