Quotes About Responsibility

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.

You can choose to look the other way but never again can you say that you never knew.

Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, 'I did not know.

What we believe determines how we live. Men who sincerely believed that what they were doing was right have perpetrated many of the most hideous crimes against humanity.

The instructive admonitions, "give an account of thy stewardship,"—"occupy till I come;" are forgotten. Thus the generous and wakeful spirit of Christian Benevolence, seeking and finding every where occasions for its exercise, is exploded, and a system of decent selfishness is avowedly established in its stead; a system scarcely more to be abjured for its impiety, than to be abhorred for its cold insensibility to the opportunities of diffusing happiness.

We are all accountable: Our fallen nature is no excuse. We are responsible: God is not to blame. We stand guilty and deserving judgment. Any other teaching dilutes and refutes the true significance of the cross of Christ.

Once did she hold the gorgeous east in fee:And was the safeguard of the west.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Stern daughter of the voice of God!O Duty!

Duty were our games.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Deep breathing at an open window is a wonderful thing unless you live in Los Angeles or down the block from an asbestos plant. Everybody knows that filling your lungs with oxygen is good, but not many people do it. It's like most of the choices you have in life. You know inside what is right. Whether you do it is up to you.

I am the only person who can set me free from what might have been.

Do Right Woman, Do Right Man." I sang it nice and slow

Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back." #quotesilikebydkc

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.

It is the women who are responsible for bringing along the next generation to carry the culture forward.

God help those who do not help themselves.

A man does not sell the earth the people walk on." That