Quotes about Consequences

The question that preoccupied the Fathers was not to know if God existed or not - the existence of God was a "given" for nearly all men of this period, Christians or pagans. The question which tormented entire generations was rather: *how* he existed. And such a question had direct consequences as much for the Church as for man, since both were considered as 'images of God'.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Remember, what you say comes back to you.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

What we live by we die by.