Quotes about Responsibility
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.
— Anonymous
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
— Euripides
I know of only one duty, and that is to love
— Albert Camus
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we don't show our love to one another the world has a right to questions whether Christianity is true...
— Francis Schaeffer
We will have to depend in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people
— Martin Luther
A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.
— Martin Luther
For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.
— Martin Luther
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife that you may learn to bear these troubles. Those who have no love for children are... unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessing of God, the creator and author of marriage.
— Martin Luther
When it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do, rather, before the question is raised, it has done the deed, and keeps on doing it
— Martin Luther
Although we are all equally priests, we cannot all publicly minister and teach.
— Martin Luther