Quotes About Accountability

Am I prepared for His coming? Jesus cannot come and do His work in me as long as there is anything blocking the way, whether it is something good or bad. When He comes to me, am I prepared for Him to drag every wrong thing I have ever done into the light?

It is not only God who punishes for sin, but sin establishes itself in the sinner and takes its toll.

And if we make our own inability a stumbling block or an excuse not to be obedient, it means that we are telling God that there is something which He has not yet taken into account.

God holds the saints responsible for emotions they do not have and ought to have, as well as for the emotions they have allowed that they ought not to have allowed.

One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.

the transgressions of the Bush era, rather than being denounced as unworthy of our Constitution, have been institutionalized.

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

Because when people look back on the history of this time, at what happened, they should see that we tried to do something," he said with determination

All those people - poor Sr. Marquez, Ana-Letitia, Sergio - they died because of me? I brought that down on them? Oh, God!" Then she turned and fled up the stairs. "Well, I'd say you handled that with great sensivity." "Go to hell, Hunter!" Zach stood there, staring after her. "Your first.

If it was true that men made their own hell on earth, then he'd certainly found his.

world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."   —Albert Einstein, Renown Scientist

The English word "truth" comes from a Germanic root that also gives rise to our word "troth," as in the ancient vow "I pledge thee my troth." With this word one person enters a covenant with another, a pledge to engage in mutually accountable and transforming relationship...to know in truth is to become betrothed, to engage the known with one's whole self...to know in truth is to be known as well.

It's unfair to lay all responsibility for the future on the younger generation. After all, the problems they face are partly due to the fact that we, their elders, screwed up. Worse still, it's not true that the young alone are in charge of what comes next. We—young and old together—hold the future in our hands. If our common life is to become more compassionate, creative, and just, it will take an intergenerational effort.

if we who are privileged find ourselves confined, it is only because we have conspired in our own imprisonment.

Grate power comes with grate responsibility. so use it wisely.

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

The difference between Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers and Enron's Kenneth Lay is far easier to recognize with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight.

Solid team relationships (trust, respect, acceptance, courtesy, and mutual accountability) are the glue that holds the team together.

Shouda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.