Quotes about Responsibility

Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.

They themselves ordained their Fall. The first sort by their own suggestion fell Self-tempted, self-depraved.

He who kills a person kills a reasonable creature, but he who kills a good book destroys reason itself.

Had anyone written and divulged erroneous things and scandalous to honest life, misusing and forfeiting the esteem had of his reason among men, if after conviction this only censure were adjudged him that he should never henceforth write

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

I did, however, remember a line from a book by Dallas Willard that I had read just recently: "At the beginning of each morning I commit my day to the Lord's care. . . . I have already placed God in charge. I no longer have to manage the weather, airplanes, and other people.

I remember how at night I didn't have slow, sweet talks, but merely rushed the children to bed so I could have more time to myself.

Isa. xliii. 22, "Thou hast not called upon me, thou hast been weary of me.

It is the duty of a shepherd to know the state of his flock; and unless he do so he will never feed them profitably.

For having wealth and wherewithal to "do good", if you do it not, talk not of faith, for you have no faith in you.

I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love for Christy as I did not know could exist on this earth. You, God, must be responsible. You must have put it there. So what do I do with it now?

Have you ever thought that the only ugly things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.