Quotes about Responsibility

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?

A well-known psychologist once said, 'When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education.

Apparently I looked strong enough for harder work; I was told to report to the Phillips factory.

AND SO THE shadow fell across us that winter afternoon in 1937, but it rested lightly. Nobody dreamed that this tiny cloud would grow until it blocked out the sky. And nobody dreamed that in this darkness each of us would be called to play a role: Father and Betsie and Mr. Kan and Willem—even the funny old Beje with its unmatching floor levels and ancient angles.