Quotes About Responsibility

On the day of judgment, it will be demanded of us not what we have read, but what we have done.

Sometimes my sin is not what I do; it also describes what I don't do when I know I should.

Cuanto más y mejor entiendes, tanto más gravemente serás juzgado si no vivieres santamente.

If you take on too much, your overcommitted schedules will become monsters that interfere with my agenda for you.

a surety, at the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, not what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.

On the day of judgment, surely, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived.

Of a surety, at the Day of Judgment it will be demanded of us, not what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have spoken, but how holily we have lived.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

Calling someone to reschedule wastes time and creates work for the other person. The time I've spent fixing double bookings in my life is time I'll never get back.

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

Shepherds of the flock should . . . seek the good of their flock, and every ruler the good of the people subject to him.

news of all this reached [John], but he said that he did not care about the child, since he still had the anvils and the hammers to forge even finer ones'.

The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

Oh Lord, how heavy thy honor is to bear.

Then I am fundamentally a slave, I whom you call the most glorious king of all?" said Arthur. "No man is free who needeth air to breathe," said Merlin.

privilege is founded on duty, and if the horse carries the man, the animal is fed before the rider himself doth eat. Thus in certain respects the first comes last, and the greatest king is the loneliest.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.

In this sense every serious choice has a tragicomic dimension. For it is impossible to be a human being without choosing, and it is impossible to choose without value denials, and it is impossible to deny values without guilt. That is a very simple though, but it forms the core definition of guilt: an awareness of significant value loss for which I know myself to be responsible. Guilt is the self-knowing of moral loss.

When congregations hold passive views of human responsibility, the evidence is that they are not growing. If some teaching claims to be the Gospel but does nothing in response, does not elicit any compassionate action, then it is surely not the Gospel. The fantasy of a gospel that does nothing is not the good news of the New Testament.