Quotes About Responsibility

we should be there with the needed hint or explanation—but only if our kids ask for it, and only as long as it's profitable. When we start to become irritated, we've helped enough.

The parent should keep their response empathetic yet vague: "I want you to have that, and you can—as soon as you have a plan for how this isn't going to be a problem." Wise parents keep their response fairly open ended in order to keep the child thinking about the situation and how to move forward.

We can hurt a little as we watch them learn life's lessons now, or we can hurt a lot as we watch them grow up to be individuals unable to care for themselves.

Allow the consequences to do the teaching.

The state of our kids' room is a control battle we can win. But making an issue of it doesn't mean yelling at them. It means offering choices

For the consequences to have any benefit, we must commiserate with our kids, not yell at them. They have nobody to be angry with but themselves when we show sadness. Because of punishment, Brianne had her mom to blame.

To help our children gain responsibility we must offer them opportunities to be responsible, rather than order them to do what we think is responsible. "Rules

Your responsibility is to not question God's actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God's character.

You are placed on this earth to represent God.

Your impact on the lives of others--your family, the people at your church, your workmates--is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.

Have you ever considered that for some people in your life, you might be the only Christian they know?

The man and husband of the household is responsible for the way your family's income is managed.

Jesus has entrusted His message of salvation to His followers. Faithfully share the message!

We are to take the baton of God's truth and pass it on to the next generation of believers.

God is asking you to take care of this special place. He says: If a man is lazy, the rafters sag; if his hands are idle, the house leaks (Ecclesiastes 10:18).

Faithfulness in little things will prepare you for greater tasks from God.

View your body as something God has entrusted into your care.

Maybe a single life doesn't amount to much but perhaps it should at least drift toward the common good.

How much l wanted to take scalps, but it was not my kill. - Legends of the Fall

These children who come at you with knives-they're your children.-Chuck

one motion of individual want sends trembles around a circle of dependents, until the whole helpless ring knocks and shakes like a tray of wineglasses in an unsteady waiter's hands. Any music they make is random, involuntary and brief; one can't be still unless they all are, and they never are.

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.

No heavenly power will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

If evil in this world is deeply human and very real, and religious people believe it is, it just doesn't make spiritual sense to suggest that the evil all lies "out there" with our adversaries and enemies, and none of it is "in here" with us—embedded in our own attitudes, behaviors, and policies.