Quotes About Responsibility

what I felt in that embrace was the knowledge that she would never be able to raise me, not by herself.

If you get a cat because you just loooove cats, you're going to have plenty of days when you hate it because it's acting like a cat.

Really, sometimes she just wanted to round up all the Emerson parents in the gymnasium, line them up single file, and then go down the line, one by one, smacking each of them upside the head and yelling, "What the hell is the matter with you?

The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.

Marriage is more than finding the right person…it is being the right person!

Your assignment from God is not to change your husband, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to him.

Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.

No role brings greater joy or blessing than being a parent.

Your assignment from God is not to change your spouse, but to love, follow, assist, and minister to them.

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you'll ever do.

Every act and choice you make is creating the real you and shaping your real life.

I sit in the driver's seat concerning most of the structure of my every day, including growing in the Lord. I decide whether the things of the Lord are really that important to me…or not. I decide whether I will make the effort to grow…or not. I decide whether I will schedule in the time it takes to grow, to meet with God regularly, to stop, look, and listen to Him by reading my Bible…or not.

Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children.

A woman who walks with God honors Him in the way she manages her home.

The husband leads, loves, and works hard to provide, while the wife follows, loves, helps, and appreciates his efforts.

It takes dedicated parents to produce consecrated children.

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.

Wenn die Menschen ihren Lebensweg beschreiten, fängt es immer dann an schiefzulaufen, sobald sie den Teil ihrer selbst vernachlässigen, der ihren Geist nährt. Ohne diese Nahrung stirbt der Geist, und es ist Teil unserer Verantwortung für uns selbst, das nicht zuzulassen.

Proverbs 7:11-12—These verses describe, of all things, an adulteress. She is doing the opposite of the wise homemaker who tends to her house and housework. She is "out there," walking the streets, instead of being at home. "Her feet would not stay at home. At times she was outside, at times in the open square, lurking at every corner.

we must take care of our families wherever we find them.

Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life's expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called fate, the other on the horse called free will. And the question you have to ask every day is--which horse is which? Which horse do I need to stop worrying about because it's not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?

I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material comforts and protection at all times. I forget how dangerously reduced some men can feel when that basic ability has been stripped from them. I forget how much that matters to men, what it represents.