Quotes About Responsibility

God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.

God has entrusted flawed human beings with a message so powerful that it sometimes does its work in spite of us.

Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers

Not even God, with all his power, can force a human being to love.

Caught up in righteous—and wholly appropriate—revulsion over Serbian atrocities, the world overlooks one fact: the Serbs are simply following the terrible logic of unforgiveness.

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative. Instead of waiting for his neighbor to make the first move

Y el mundo que nos observa, juzga a Dios por aquellos que llevan su nombre. En gran medida, la desilusión con Dios brota de la desilusión con los demás cristianos.

We live on a planet that has been invaded by evil forces, and God's followers are called to be part of the solution.

Nature teaches me nothing about Incarnation or the Victorious Christian Life. It does, though, awaken my desire to meet whoever is responsible for the monarch butterfly.

God took a great risk by announcing forgiveness in advance, and the scandal of grace involves a transfer of that risk to us.

Charles Williams loved his son with reservations, complaining that a child is a guest of a somewhat inconsistent temperament, rather difficult to get rid of, almost pushing; a poor relation rather than a pleasant kind.

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.

And I am much attached to my cock, brother. Make sure your sister can put another prince in the cradle, he says baldly. Save my balls for her, Anthony!

Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What'd you choose to do with yours?

Getting a woman into power is not the point—it's getting a good woman into power who thinks and cares about what she does.

Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him.

it is easier to unleash evil than call it back again. Any fool can blow up a wind, but who can know where it will blow or when it will stop?

People always make up stories about princesses. It comes to us with the crown. We have to carry it as lightly as we can.

The baby should always be saved in preference to the mother. That is the advice of the Holy Church, you know that. I was only reminding women of their duty. There is no need to make everything so personal, Margaret. You make everything into your own tragedy.

He knew as well as I did that you cannot release a girl from her promise to love a man. She either gets herself free or she is bound for life.

Remember, she needs you now. Don't sell your services too cheap.