Quotes About Responsibility

“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”

Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.

And the LORD said to me: “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”

“And now this decree is for you, O priests:

So then, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do likewise will be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

“They do not need to go away,” Jesus replied. “You give them something to eat.”

“Yes,” he answered. When Peter entered the house, Jesus preempted him. “What do you think, Simon?” He asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs and taxes: from their own sons, or from others?”

“From others,” Peter answered. “Then the sons are exempt,” Jesus declared.

But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!

Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

Because of this, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.

But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ëSon, go and work today in the vineyard.í

Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.

When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.

Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.

Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those tenants?”

“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”

Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

So tell us what You think: Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?”

“Whose image is this,” He asked, “and whose inscription?”

“Caesarís,” they answered. So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesarís, and to God what is Godís.”