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Quotes About Responsibility

To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create.
~ James Oppenheim
I am catholic. And I don't like to see catholicism being brought into disrepute by those in charge who don't seem to believe in God at all... they act like they don't think God is watching.
~ Sinead O'Connor
On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?
~ Stephen King
God did not intend that we should be cowards, or delinquents, or fools, or sinners or weaklings. He created us in his own image and commanded us to be men.
~ Sterling W Sill
Is God to blame for what I myself have done?
~ Swami Vivekananda
When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.
~ Swami Vivekananda
God's 'failures' are really man's failures.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Caring for God's endowment in a thrifty fashion is a form of biblical obedience.
~ Ted Malloch
To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.
~ Timothy Keller
Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.
~ Timothy Keller
All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.
~ Tryon Edwards
Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
God made the water but men made the wine.
~ Victor Hugo
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
~ Victor Hugo
The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.
~ Wendell Berry
The question is not, how much of what is mine do I give to others. The question is, how much of what is God's do I reserve for myself. The answer we give is a faith issue, a stewardship issue.
~ William Avery
God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.
~ William Cowper
God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.
~ William Penn
Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.
~ William Penn
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.
~ William Ralph Inge
Why, thou owest god a death.
~ William Shakespeare
When God gives us a talent it is our responsibility to hone it for His purpose and glory
~ Yoshiko Sakurai
Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.
~ Larry Wall