Quotes about Responsibility
“Why were you looking for Me?” He asked. “Did you not know that I had to be in My Father’s house?”
— Luke 2:49
Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
— Luke 3:8
The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”
— Luke 3:9
“Collect no more than you are authorized,” he answered.
— Luke 3:13
Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
— Luke 3:14
Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?
— Luke 6:46
But the one who hears My words and does not act on them is like a man who built his house on ground without a foundation. The torrent crashed against that house, and immediately it fell—and great was its destruction!”
— Luke 6:49
For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell one to go, and he goes; and another to come, and he comes. I tell my servant to do something, and he does it.”
— Luke 7:8
“Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
— Luke 7:41
But Jesus told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. You, however, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
— Luke 9:60
But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.
— Luke 10:14
Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
— Luke 10:16