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Quotes About Accountability

Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.
~ Rumi
To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
He that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
~ John R. Rice
God'll send the bill to you.
~ James Russell Lowell
Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.
~ Alan Moore
Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!
~ Anne Bradstreet
Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'
~ Criss Jami
All of us can meet God's high expectations.
~ D. Todd Christofferson
The downside is, if somebody doesn't like it, then it's like "oh my god, ok its really your fault."
~ Daniel Simon
Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
~ John Piper
I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.
~ Katharine Hepburn
People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed.
~ Lee Greenwood
There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.
~ Mark Twain
I think to trust in the sovereignty of God does not excuse my personal responsibility. Just the opposite - it equips me to be personally responsible.
~ Max Lucado
What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.
~ Mother Teresa
Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that
~ Randy Pausch
If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
~ Adam Clarke
Do you realize that God expects you to consider that you are actually working for Jesus Christ on your job?
~ Bill Gothard
Your damnation is your own election, not God's.
~ Charles Spurgeon
If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.
~ Sherwin Wine