Quotes about Responsibility

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.

Fixin' onything is man's work," came Opal's firm answer. Tearin' down or killin', that thar's easy. Any addle-pated fool kin pull the trigger of a rifle-gun or fling a rock. It's fixin' that's hard, takes a heap more doin'.

Fix the problem, not the blame.

Sometimes taking up our cross is doing the thing in front of us, not the glamorous, high-risk thing afar off.

How can we come to church and sing our hymns and pray our prayers and spit on the very creation God made above every other living thing on this earth?

Life is full of 'ifs,' Robert. What is important is what we do with what is.

After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?" Franklin Responded, "A Republic, if you can keep it." A critical moment in history has come; our Republic is in jeopardy. Can we keep it? If the answer to that question, as I fear, is "no," then we have no one to blame but ourselves.

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.

Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.