Quotes About Accountability

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

As soon as you see a mistake and don't fix it, it becomes your mistake.

If you mess up, 'fess up.

You do not need to be the designated driver of someone's intoxicated ego.

We can challenge and encourage one another, but we cannot live the Christian life or respond to the convicting ministry of the Spirit for one another.

The chief engineer was not the only member of the crew who disregarded the safety of the passengers. Of the first eighty people lowered away in lifeboats, seventy-three were crew members.

Meanwhile, in assessing responsibility for the attempted arson, murder, and strike action, Robert Wilmott had made one grave mistake. He suspected the wrong person.

But the day will come when you will have to answer for it! You know I didn't come here alone to-day——!" Both men looked startled and glanced uneasily into the shadows, as if there might be someone lurking there. "God came with me and He knows! He'll make you remember some day!

The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.

I regret to report I let my barely legal self down.

Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

You fuss too much over making the "right" choice Gaius. All we need do is make a good choice, see it through, and accept the consequences.

Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time.

It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours.

Our crimes always catch up with us. - Alfred Pennyworth

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.   —Aristotle

There is no man made in the image of God and living in God's world, whatever God's attitude toward him and his own feelings about Christ, who does not know the living and true God, his Creator. All men have the requisite knowledge of God to make them eternally responsible before Him; this was true in the Garden, and it does not cease to be true after the fall. Sin or no sin, special revelation or no special revelation, all men inescapably know their God.

To be a follower of Christ is to understand that there is no such thing as solo discipleship.

Intimate, accountable relationship with other believers is the foundation for growing in discipleship.

As the alternative to the one-on-one model, I propose a threesome that I call a triad as the ideal size for a disciple-making group.

Leadership is about instilling urgency.

You can't help people more than they want to help themselves.

Travers shifted uneasily in her chair. "Sir, can't you give us more time on this? Marlow's a hell of a guy to unleash in this situation—it's like letting a fifteen-year-old loose in a whorehouse, if you'll pardon the metaphor." "It's a simile. And I want him.

Jade turned around. "Fine," he said shortly. "Fine. I'll try to bring him in alive." "You will not try to bring him in alive, Mr. Marlow. You will bring him in alive. Don't equivocate on that point.