Quotes About Accountability

Use your inner resources. Stop trying to distract yourself with tiny pictures and other people's lives. You're distracting yourself from things you ought to be owning up to.

There was an excuse for everything these days. Except it meant someone else picking up the pieces.

struck her that these days that remorse was very thin on the ground. It seemed nobody had to be sorry any more for anything they did; instead they doubled down, were proud of it, never ever admitted to being in the wrong about anything.

Leave with the one you came with, unless he's a drunk—then find your own way home.

Stormy used to have a saying. Leave with the one you came with, unless he's a drunk--then find your own way home.

and you will feel abject regret, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself.

Your mouth is writin' checks your butt can't cash

It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore.

Secrecy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Making a fixed promise that is subject to high levels of uncertainty and then requiring people to meet that promise at all costs is like putting the performance cart before the horse. The result is likely to be the distortion of profitability over time and, in exceptional circumstances, outright fraud.

There would be hell to pay (or purgatory to rent, at a minimum) if I did not act fast.

There was George, throwing away in hideous sloth the inestimable gift of time; his valuable life, every second of which he would have to account for hereafter, passing away from him, unused.... sprawling there, sunk in soul-clogging oblivion.

Debido al carácter engañoso de nuestro corazón, algunas veces jugamos con la tentación, abrigando la idea de que siempre es posible confesar y pedir perdón posteriormente, este modo de pensar resulta absolutamente peligroso.

Though the power for godly character comes from Christ, the responsibility for developing and displaying that character is ours.

Practice of true community involves responsibilities and actions that do not come naturally to us.

But on the whole, we appear to be more concerned about the sins of society than we are the sins of the saints. In fact, we often indulge in what I call the "respectable" or "acceptable" sins without any sense of sin. Our

views our disobedience.

Too often we say we are "defeated" by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient!

Fellowship is not just a social privilege to enjoy; it is more basically a responsibility to assume.

First, we should never use the doctrine as an excuse for our own shortcomings.

the choices people make are moral choices; that is, people are held accountable by God for the choices they make. The actions of Judas, Herod, and Pilate were wicked acts even though done under the sovereign appointment of God.

Third, we must never use the doctrine of God's sovereignty to excuse our own sinful actions or decisions that hurt another person.

God still holds us accountable for the very sins that He uses to accomplish His purpose.