Every act is followed by its own effect.

Every act is followed by its own effect, which nothing, save the powerful dynamics of will itself, can modify, and when will modifies the effect of an antecedent cause, it is always by setting up a counteracting and more powerful cause than the first―a cause so strong that the other is irresistibly carried along with it, as a great flood can sweep a trickling stream of water from an open hose-pipe, carrying the hose-pipe cause, and its trickling effect, along with the rushing torrent of its own flood.

If you recognise the fact that you have sinned, set up good actions more powerful than your sins and reap the reward for those.

―The Judge