Quotes About Responsibility

Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

My actions are my only true belongings.

By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.

Nature hides a man many things; but the man hides the nature itself. Nature decides when to show a man what; man decides what to show the society how.

Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it

Feeling guilty does not set us free. Being equipped sets us free.

So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.

Pastors simply need three characteristics to satisfy all their church members: omniscience; omnipresence, and omnipotence.

Pastors and other church leaders make mistakes. Church members often exacerbate them.

The blamers resist change because they do not need to change, at least from their perspective. The problems all reside with other people and other situations. They don't see anything wrong with themselves. Blamers will blame. Blamers do not want to change.

As a church member, I am responsible for encouraging and leading my entire family to worship together in the church.

We church members must cease and desist becoming "I want" members and become "I will" members.

As a leader, you are constantly confronting realities, communicating realities, and communicating the urgency of the moment. You may tire of the redundancy. You may think it's time to be quiet for a season. But it's not. You communicate. And then communicate. And then communicate again.

Lives not fully lived are the worst kinds of stewardship.

If you are not being criticized, you are not leading. Such is the reality of leadership. Such is the reality of change leadership.

As leaders, we do not want to change people. We want God to change people. And that includes us leaders as well.

Turnaround begins with you. Outward focus begins with you. Revitalization begins with you.

Being a good steward of those material things that God has given our churches is good. Becoming obsessed with any one item to the neglect of His mission is idolatry.

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.

If there is a devil at work then he rests in institutions and not in individuals. Because the beauty of institutions is that any individual can abdicate responsibility. The assumption that we're all utterly powerless, that's the devil at work.

You do it to yourself

At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.