Quotes about Consequence

I wish my countrymen to consider, that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual, without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Men are punished by their sins, not for them.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

The refusal to love is hell.

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless.

Woe to those who die in mortal sin!

Whatever happens, happens rightly. Watch closely, and you will find this true. In the succession of events there is not mere sequence alone, but an order that is just right, as from the hand of one who dispense to their due.

Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?