Quotes about Responsibility
It is much easier to fail to love your parents than to fail to love your children. That is why there is a commandment that commands love and respect to parents, but not to children. In an age of abortion, there ought to be an eleventh commandment against neglecting, harming, abusing, or even murdering your own children.
— Peter Kreeft
If human life becomes cheapened, it becomes cheapened at both ends. Parents are killed, by euthanasia, when they become a "burden" to their children; and children are killed, by abortion, when they become a "burden" to their parents. All societies in history would regard these two sins as two of the most heartless and inhuman possible sins. To kill your parents is to kill yourself, your own past; and to kill your children is to kill yourself, your own future.
— Peter Kreeft
The difference between a counsel and a commandment is that a commandment implies obligation, whereas a counsel is left to the option of the one to whom it is given.
— Peter Kreeft
There is no such thing as an involuntary sin.
— Peter Kreeft
Murder and adultery are great crimes.
— Peter Kreeft
Second, the origin of evil is not the Creator but the creature's freely choosing sin and selfishness.
— Peter Kreeft
Christians are good citizens, and take human laws very seriously, for religious reasons, not just for secular reasons. That's why they are better citizens than atheists, and certainly better citizens than moral relativists and subjectivists: they have stronger motives for obedience.
— Peter Kreeft
4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man's loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will.
— Peter Kreeft
why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious:
— Peter Kreeft
Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)
— Peter Kreeft
Overcomers concentrate on details that go unnoticed by others. They do what needs to be done, even when no one is watching.
— David Jeremiah
No matter what else you're involved in, regardless of what else you're doing, make your children a high priority. God has given you an amazing privilege! Say no to other things before you say no to your kids.
— David Jeremiah