Quotes About Responsibility

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be…

Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.

Kuyper notes that the scholar is distinct in setting the scope of his stewardship on the mind itself. "Not merely to live," he writes, "but to know that you live and how you live, and how things around you live, and how all that hangs together and lives out of the one efficient cause that proceeds from God's power and wisdom.

When God says to me, "obey," then I humbly bow my head, without compromising in the least my personal dignity, as a man.

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

If General McClellan did not want to use the army, he would like to borrow it.

This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God, can not long retain it.

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

I think the necessity of being ready increases. Look to it.

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

If there ever could be a proper time for mere catch arguments, that time surely is not now. In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny. From "Cutting for Stone

Sooner or later, she must sit down to the meal of consequences

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." p 533

How we treat the least of our brethren, how we treat the peasant suffering with volvulus, that's the measure of this country. Not our fighter planes or tanks

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.