Quotes about Consequence

What I am has been to a considerable extent determined by what my forebears were, by how they chose to treat this place while they lived in it;

What sets a man writhing sleepless in bed at night is not having injured his fellow so much as having been wrong; the mere injury he can efface by destroying the victim and the witness but the mistake is his and that is one of his cats which he always prefers to choke to death with butter.

Pragmatism asks its usual question. Grant an idea or belief to be true, it says, what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

The means have murdered the end.

A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Mankind cannot suffer anywhere without it bringing sorrow to other hearts.

Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

We want to pin a reason to it or else we get terrified anyone else might do the same thing. Including us.

Destructive behavior—or simply behavior that constantly annoys your spouse to the point of desperation—is not right, and there will always be a serious consequence for it in your marriage and personal life. But every attempt you make to rid yourself of that behavior and do what's right will bring reward. Today, ask God to help break any bad habits that you or your spouse may have.

If you don't want the effect, do something to remove the causes. There is no use loving the cause and fearing the effect and being surprised when the effect inevitably follows the cause.

We are not responsible for more than our own action, but for this we should take complete responsibility. Then the results will follow of themselves, in a manner we may not always be able to foresee. We do not always have to foresee every possibility.