Quotes about Responsibility

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.

Somehow, out of his watch shop that never made money, he fed and dressed and cared for eleven more children after his own four were grown.

You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.

This is God's universe; we just live in it. He doesn't owe us anything. We owe him everything. What did you make? Nothing. He made everything. For everything you have, you owe him.

God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that God gifts His chosen leaders with a very unusual blessing. You might even call it a weird blessing because most of the time we call it...a burden.

When you feel this burden, you might be frustrated, wondering why no one else cares as much as you do. The reason why you care and others don't could be because God has aimed it directly at you.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

But God does give us responsibility, and it takes biblical faith to do those things in dependence on God.

And because God has entrusted you with such riches, you can use these resources to make a profound difference in countless lives.

We must discern what God calls us to accomplish rather than mindlessly adding on everything presented to us.