Quotes About Responsibility

Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.

Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

People used to behave morally because they thought God was always watching - in some ways God today is the collective, and the collective is watching.

We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations.

God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.

We are responsible for our captivity to sin. In our foolishness, we forget God. However, God intervenes!

I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.

Prayer reminds me it's not just about me. It's about all the people with whom I share this planet, and all of whom God has created, and all of whom he cares just as much about as he cares about me.

God does not call us to rest seven days a week with our head in the sand. He calls us to make an impact wherever we are.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.

When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.

Today is important only in light of what we do for God.