Quotes about Responsibility

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

If we don't show our love to one another the world has a right to questions whether Christianity is true...

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Although we are all equally priests, we cannot all publicly minister and teach.

Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.

As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him.