Quotes about Responsibility

Every man has power to 'lose his own soul' (Matthew 26:26).

What youth sows, old age must reap.

The man who is content to sit ignorantly by his own fireside, wrapped up in his own private affairs, and has no public eye for what is going on in the Church and the world, is a miserable patriot, and a poor style of Christian. Next to our Bibles and our own hearts, our Lord would have us study our own times.

What young men will be, in all probability depends on what they are now, and they seem to forget this. Youth is the planting time of full age, the molding season in the little space of human life, the turning point in the history of man's mind.

the parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand and pulling down with the other.

A holy person will seek to be faithful in all the duties and relations in life. He will not merely try to do as well as others who take no thought for their souls, but he will try to do even better, because he has higher motives and more help than they.

Let us resolve to pray much for ministers. Their office is no light one if they do their duty. They need the help of many intercessions from all praying people. They have not only their own souls to care for but also the souls of others. No wonder Paul cries, Who is adequate for these things? (2 Corinthians 2:16). If we never prayed for ministers before, let us begin to do it this day.

Don't fear withholding anything from your child that you think will do him harm, whatever his own wishes may be.

God says expressly, Train up a child in the way he should go, and He never gave a command that He did not give man grace to perform.

This is the thought that should be uppermost on your mind in all you do for your children. In every step you take for them — in every plan, scheme, and arrangement that concerns them — do not leave out that mighty question, "How will this affect their souls?

1 Kings 1:6: his father had never crossed him at any time by asking, "Why have you done so?" That was the foundation of all the mischief. David was an overindulgent father, a father who let his children have their own way, and he reaped according as he had sown.

but if you do not take the trouble with your children when they are young, they will give you trouble when they are old. Choose which you prefer.