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Quotes About Accountability

As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
~ Andy Stanley
If you believe there is a God, a God that made your body, and yet you think that you can do anything with that body that's dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.
~ Lenny Bruce
I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.
~ Socrates
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
~ Elie Wiesel
The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.
~ Rick Warren
By God ye shall be called to account for your doings!
~ Elijah Muhammad
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I take it very seriously when I take the pulpit. That I'm representing God.
~ Greg Laurie
God is my guide, so I try to not judge myself too much, knowing that at the end of the day, my greatest judge will be Jehovah God.
~ Common
Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations.
~ Thom S. Rainer
I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.
~ Madonna Ciccone
We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
~ Maimonides
I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.
~ Charles Krauthammer
We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .
~ Swami Vivekananda
Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.
~ Walter Martin
If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.
~ Frederick William Robertson
If we don't discipline ourselves, God will make certain we are disciplined by others.
~ Jamie Buckingham
The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord.
~ John Nelson Darby
Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.
~ Madonna Ciccone
All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.
~ Alan Keyes
God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.
~ Beth Moore
God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
~ D. A. Carson
God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.
~ Louis Zamperini