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Quotes About Responsibility

All I ever have to be is what you made me.
~ Amy Grant
When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.
~ Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.
~ Tori Amos
In religion, the ego manifests as the devil. And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else.
~ Deepak Chopra
Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.
~ Richard Rohr
I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.
~ Dalai Lama
She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.
~ Virginia Woolf
Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.
~ Ayn Rand
At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.
~ Indra Sinha, Animal's People
There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.
~ Krishnananda Saraswati
Without God all things are permitted.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.
~ Sarah Trimmer
The one thing I like about the religion is, I'm never at a loss to do something. No matter what happens in my life, there is something for me to do so I don't feel as though I have lost control.
~ Silver RavenWolf
Those who accept freedom of religion as a right are obligated by this acceptance to take the maintenance of freedom of religion as a duty.
~ Joseph Leon Blau
What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison.
~ Malcolm X
Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.
~ Gillian Anderson
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.
~ Immanuel Kant
People call you extremist when you are spreading Islam but always remember that you are not..they are extremist because they are endangering there own life with there own hands.
~ Muhammad Mubbashir
We are our own gods.
~ Zeena Schreck