Quotes About Responsibility

If, as Paul says, "the church of the living God [is] the pillar and foundation of the truth" (1 Timothy 3:15), then no standard of truth exists outside of Christianity, and it is our responsibility to be "the pillar and foundation of the truth" in a society that is hostile to the truth of God.

3:6). James is not talking about metaphysics, and he is not trying to identify the tempter. He wishes to make us take responsibility and confront temptation. This is not accomplished by blaming God's sovereignty. The

2 Timothy 2:15 says, "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth

We have no sovereignty over the devil, and we cannot stop him from being the tempter. However, we are responsible to examine our desires, and if they make us susceptible to temptations, we must resist them. We

because many churches are negligent and disobedient when it comes to maintaining the purity of the faith or the community.

Scripture teaches human responsibility, not human freedom, and responsibility does not presuppose freedom.

You cannot preach like a Christian and then vote like an atheist. If you do, you are probably just an atheist.

You are not accountable to me – I am not the one who will send you to hell. You are accountable to God, but he wants me to tell you that.

He contradicts the common assumption that responsibility presupposes ability – that is, the assumption that if a person is unable to accept the gospel, then he should not be blamed for failing to accept it. However, Jesus says that all human beings are unable to accept the gospel unless enabled by God, but all who do not accept the gospel will still be punished for their sins. Thus responsibility does not presuppose ability.

The Bible does not teach both divine sovereignty and human freedom, but it teaches both divine sovereignty and human responsibility.

False doctrine results when people confuse responsibility with freedom, or when they assume that responsibility presupposes freedom, so that humans are responsible only if they are free.

We cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individual. Toward this end, each of us must work toward his own highest development, accepting at the same time his share of responsibility in the general life of humanity—our particular duty being to help those to whom we feel we can be most useful.

Every man must bear his own burden.

Se estes senhores daqui protestam contra mim, eu também protesto contra eles, e só lhes resta me ressarcir por perdas e danos amigavelmente, enfim, só lhes resta devolver-me o que perderei por sua culpa e ignorância.

Don't be thanking me," he says. "You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing. That's something the politicians will never understand. Priests too.

You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing. That's something the politicians will never understand.

couldn't get to them in time. It was just too hot. Your mother . . . I warned her about smoking in bed. I told her what would happen." "Did Mom start the fire? Did she burn my brothers?" "She didn't mean to start it, Reece," he cries. "But now she's killed them all.

We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice — that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney.

From a single crime know the nation.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

Why didn't you tell us the first day?" And Jolly goes, "Well, nobody told me—I didn't know—" She goes, "Nobody told me. You know?" And when she says this it's like a flat tire got fixed in my head and I suddenly see the sign of her life: "Nobody told me." I look in my brain and I make a brief list of who's sposed to tell you things. It's your folks and your teachers and your girlfriends and your coach if you have a sport.

In Biology Patrick and I were like two pencils in a box, parallel but not alive to each other, my guilty feelings stifling my common sense.

From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.