Quotes About Responsibility

When a corrupt ruler is given the seat of power, he will end up neglecting all the virtues of a true leader.

You are crying for freedom because you have allowed your temper to go wild.

You are given the free will, or choices in life; but you must be widely awake to make wise decisions.

You are not forced to turn this world into a hell, thinking that you will receive, or gain the passport of entering heaven.

You are responsible for your actions and sins, in the same manner as you believe that you are responsible for your own life.

You can do very well without a wife or a woman without a man. But in order not to be too selfish or to not end the cycle of a new generation, we must marry at all costs.

You can have more children only according to your ability to feed them.

You cannot expect to keep receiving without giving something back, or paying the price for every pleasure that you wish to enjoy.

You cannot keep blaming the rich people for all of your miseries if you are not willing to act in the first place.

You cannot live your whole life nor base it on the assumption that someone else is going to carry your responsibilities at the finish line.

You have been taught not to take anything seriously in life. In other words, pay no attention. Now I tell you to take everything seriously, but nothing personal.

You must be ready to take all your responsibilities upon your head, instead of relying upon someone else to do all the dirty work for you.

You must be willing to pay the price of being called an "adult". Stop and reflect upon your life.

Your children are your seeds. Therefore, take great care of them by giving them nourishments from the very beginning of their journey.

Your past, present and future sins will be placed upon your shoulders and not on the shoulders of the man who left us long ago.

As John Wesley once said, "God does nothing but in answer to prayer."1* Prayer is therefore not an option for mankind but a necessity. If we don't pray, heaven cannot interfere in earth's affairs. It is imperative that we take responsibility for the earth and determine what happens here by our prayer lives.

If we hope to become effective and successful in life, ministry, and especially marriage, we have to learn to be good managers. Stewardship means being accountable to God for every resource under our care. Effective managers do more than simply keep things running; they add value to everything they have responsibility over. Under a good manager, resources will appreciate in value.

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

Where training and discipline are concerned, short-term pain means long-term gain. It may break our heart to inflict the pain of discipline on our children and to see their tears, but the long-term goal of preparing them to live responsibly as adults justifies the short-term pain of disciplining them while they are young.

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment." ? Myles Munroe, Understanding Your Poten

Love is an ongoing debt that we owe each other, a debt that should never be paid off. Paul made this clear when he wrote to the believers in Rome, "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law" (Rom. 13:8). If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like.

Basic stewardship of resources for married couples who are believers centers around understanding and practicing two fundamental financial principles: tithing and budgeting. Herein lie the seeds of dominion—the secrets of fruitfulness, increase, and filling. Tithing recognizes God as the source of our resources while budgeting recognizes our responsibility

Basic stewardship of resources for married couples who are believers centers around understanding and practicing two fundamental financial principles: tithing and budgeting. Herein lie the seeds of dominion—the secrets of fruitfulness, increase, and filling. Tithing recognizes God as the source of our resources while budgeting recognizes our responsibility to God to manage those resources wisely.

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load [responsibility] (Galatians 6:3-5).