Quotes About Responsibility

Yet God does this in such a way that these people make their decisions and carry out their plans by their own free and voluntary choices.

we should take more seriously our responsibility to pray for the leaders of our government that they will make wise decisions.

God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness." (The Pursuit of Holiness, 57)

We do know God has instructed us to pray for leaders. Our duty, then, is to pray for wise decisions, but to trust when foolish and harmful decisions are made.

But on the whole, we appear to be more concerned about the sins of society than we are the sins of the saints.

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

there is no conflict in the Bible between His sovereignty and our responsibility.

Some of the Corinthian Christians persisted in disobedience to the point where God had to take their lives (1 Corinthians 11:30).

Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.

I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.

I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

Lord, help me resist the inclination to rely upon my own wisdom and strength which makes me vulnerable to temptation. Help me avoid fleeing responsibility and neglecting to run to You for refuge. My natural instincts would lead me to a position in which the enemy would defeat me, but You are my righteousness. I seek You and long to see Your face.

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens it's always, who's responsible for this?

Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge.

Work is the least important thing and family is the most important.

Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge.

You'll fold faster than Superman on laundry day