Quotes About Responsibility

We believe that Christ is going to come again. But do not think that the Lord Jesus will automatically come if we sit and passively wait. No, there is a work which the church must do. As the Body of Christ, we must learn to work together with God. We should never think that it is enough just to be saved. It is not. We must be concerned with God's need. (CWWN, vol. 34, "The Glorious Church," pp. 61, 63-64)

When you give up God, this forces God to give you up. If you let go of God, God will be compelled to let go of you. This is most deplorable. It is terrible to be given up by God.

Our conscience protests [39] continually. When you argue with your parents, the conscience says, "Don't do this." If you offend your parents, your conscience will trouble you for three nights. Every husband seeking to divorce his wife will also be convicted by his conscience. All men have a conscience. This is a great matter. In the normal Christian life we must all take care of our conscience in a suitable way.

The man dies in all those that keep silent.

For the fire consumes all but the arsonist.

If you believe in democracy, are you not thereby obliged to accept, without discrimination, the fall-outs that come with a democratic choice, even if this means the termination of the democratic process itself?

Directly after God in heaven comes a Papa.

I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.

Computer machen keine Fehler, aber es ist nun einmal die Natur der Menschen, Fehler zu machen und daraus zu lernen. Nimm ihnen dieses Recht und du nimmst ihnen ihre Menschlichkeit

If we do not disciple and empower others as Jesus did, we end up exploiting them and using them for our own ends, even if we clothe our actions in very spiritual terms.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer's boy, or the son of some poor widow - who will have to do the fighting and dying.

Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it; what we have to determine now is whether we are big enough, whether we are men enough, whether we are free enough, to take possession again of the government which is our own.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."~

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?