Quotes About Responsibility

We can be the generation that no longer accepts that an accident of latitude determines whether a child lives or dies. But will we be that generation?

Deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Facts, like people, want to be free — and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

Honestly facing your lack of sovereignty over your own life produces either anxiety or relief. Anxiety is God-forgetting. It is the result of thinking that is life is on your shoulders, that it is your job to figure it all out and keep things in order.

When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change.

The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.

Winning the war of words involves choosing our words carefully. It is not just about the words we say, but also about the words we choose not to say.

For the church to be the church—not just a place where you can find ministry but where the people are a ministering community—every believer must accept his or her role in the life of every other believer.

When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change. So, he will cause you to see, hear, and experience your spouse's need for change so that you can be an agent of his rescue.

Parents, if your eyes ever see or your ears ever hear the sin and weakness of your children, it's never an accident, it's never a hassle, it's never an interruption; it's always grace. God loves your children and because he does, he has placed them in a family of faith so that you can be his tool of convicting, forgiving, and transforming grace.

This side of heaven good marriages are good marriages because the people in those marriages are committed to doing daily the things that keep their marriages good. Things go wrong when couples think they have reached the point when they can retire from their marital work and chill out, lie back, and slide.

As a parent you are never, ever dealing just with the words and actions of your children. You are always also dealing with the thing that controls their words and behavior: the heart.

Your job is be God's tool for the purpose of forming the image of God's Son in your children.

Grace allows you to face your sin, to own it and not shift the blame.

successful parenting is not about achieving goals (that you have no power to produce) but about being a usable and faithful tool in the hands of the One who alone is able to produce good things in your children.

If you put yourself in the center of your world, you will find plenty of things to complain about.

God didn't give you your children to build your reputation but to publicly proclaim his.

Parenting is about being God's ambassadors in the lives of our children.

The heart of the righteous weighs its answers" (Prov. 15:28).

We are called to be ambassadors of Christ. To be the look on his face, the touch of his hand, and the tone of his voice.

Your obedience is never to be done in the hope that you will get something, but rather in recognition of what you have already been given.

Lord. I must recognize that God, in his awesome glory, is the only being in the universe who exists in timelessness. He has created me to live in and for a certain time and place. I must do all he has called me to do within the limits of the time he has given me.