Quotes About Responsibility

The wish to be independent in everything is false pride. Even what we owe to others belongs to ourselves and is a part of our own lives, and any attempt to calculate what we have 'earned' for ourselves and what we owe to other people is certainly not Christian, and is, moreover, a futile undertaking.

I believe that God is not timeless fate, but that he waits for and answers sincere prayers and responsible deeds.

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God—the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God. Where are these responsible people?

responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live.

Assim como Cristo manteve a comunhão com o Pai ao levar fardos, o discípulo, ao levar fardos, mantém a comunhão com Cristo.

Who is this Judas? Who is the betrayer? Faced with this question, are we capable of more than asking with the disciples: "Surely not I, Lord?"8 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, sermon in Finkenwalde, 14 March 1937

Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men but only in the sight of God.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Accountability only works if you want it to.

God doesn't call us to fix every problem or to please every person; He calls us to do what we can.

We are called both to live pure lives and to take the good news to those in greatest need.

Has God called you to speak out for peace in a tense situation? Are there lives on the line God is calling you to stand up for, to declare peace to, and to encourage toward a non-violent solution? If so, do it. You never know what might happen. Maybe the Lord is likewise sending you to save many lives from destruction.

We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are.

They were neither of them in a high sphere of life. Rhoda was a farmer's daughter, the only one among a troop of great rough brothers, some younger, some older than herself. She was not more than twelve years of age, and yet she had been for a year the little mistress of the family, for her mother had long been dead.

Evil at bottom is the refusal to recognize the reality of others, to refuse to restrain ourselves, so that another does not have room to live and develop freely.

He had a sudden twinge of conscience concerning his responsibilities at the seaside villa, but dismissed it as quixotic. What he was doing was harming no one, and the blessing and peace of it all was so great a boon. He had tried cutting it off drastically once, and the result had been an explosion of emotion he had no mind to precipitate again. What earthly need was there to give up his dream-woman who harmed nobody and helped him so tremendously?

And truly, when I think about it, no one owes me a proper and truthful account of their life. And I don't owe anyone veracity when it comes to mine.

Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

The real difficulty is not the lack of time; it is what we do with the time that we have.

I know how easy it is to sound like a corny version of Noam Chomsky when talking about something like this, but in a country where millions of dollars are spent on nuclear weapons, corporate welfare, and many ridiculous things, doesn't it just make sense to take care of people first? As soon as we can make the South Bronx, Compton, Taos, and Astoria look like Beverly Hills I'll have no problem watching a guy orbit Mars.

Il était presque dix heures et demie lorsqu'Olivia arriva à son travail, et M. Holgate menaça évidemment de la congédier. – Je suis désolée. Ma maison s'est effondrée hier soir. – Et alors ? Cela n'empêche pas les clients d'avoir envie d'acheter des livres.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.