Quotes About Accountability

La menzogna non protegge nessuno

Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)

Don't give anyone the proxy for your conscience.

If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.

If we're morally responsible for monitoring our own souls, then we're morally responsible, as well, for monitoring the soul of our nation.

we need to do more than just whine about that. We need to course-correct.

The idea that a corporation should bear no responsibility to anything other than the financial bottom line of its stockholders destroys the

El crecimiento nunca tiene que ver con concentrarnos en las lecciones de otra persona, sino en las nuestras. No somos víctimas del mundo exterior. Por más difícil que sea creerlo a veces, siempre somos responsables de nuestra manera de ver las cosas. No

The fact is, it is seldom indeed that any wrong one suffers is not thoroughly foreshadowed by wrongs one has done.

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can't be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.

Everyone is responsible for everything he does

He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.

Let me go further. If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning I will blame some of the people here.

Gentlemen never get the blame in such circumstances. You should know that.

any right is always coupled with a responsibility

The system did not punish offenders the way she believed they ought to be punished.

Part of being a Christian is recognizing that sin deceives us, and we need other believers to help us see the things we cannot see about ourselves. Joining a church, I've often said, is like throwing paint on the invisible man. New sins become visible in the course of our discipling relationships.

Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church is itself the basic discipler of Christians. It does this through its weekly gatherings and its accountability structures (this chapter), as well as its elders and its members (next chapter). These in turn provide the context for the one-on-one discipling we have been considering so far.

Singles, fornicating is an internship for adultery.

Randy Alcorn describes his own learning about being a steward: If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets. He had entrusted—not given— to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

Three, Christians who practice repentance should be the only ones allowed into church membership and leadership.

we must refuse to speak in sanitized clinical euphemisms like calling adulteries "affairs," fornication "dating," and perverts "partners" because God uses frank words for deplorable sin so we will feel its sickness without anesthesia.

Politicians tell people what they want to hear, prophets tell people what they need to hear.

Hebrews 13:15–17, which says: Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.