Quotes about Responsibility

I apologize when I'm wrong.

How many souls have been lost for lack of earnestness, solemnity, and love in the preacher, even when the words uttered were precious and true!

The moral test of government is how it treats people in the dawn of life, the children, in the twilight of life, the aged, and in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped

Justice this side of heaven is a myth. It's not our job anyway. Real justice belongs to God.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

You are there to rule, not to slay. If you desire what is good, the people will at once be good. The essence of the gentleman is that of wind; the essence of small people is that of grass. And when a wind passes over the grass, it cannot choose but bend.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

Because of something she heard in school, Corrie asked her father what "sex sin" was while the two of them were riding on a train together. The father asked the little girl to carry his bag off the train. When she admitted that she could not do so, he said he would not be much of a father to expect this of her. The load was too heavy. This was the case, he said, with some knowledge. She needed to trust her father to give her knowledge at the right time.

But always they featured things we believed were wrong in the sight of God. Stealing, lying, murder. Was this what God wanted in times like these? How should a Christian act when evil was in power?