Quotes about Responsibility

All Believers are Priests

What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young?

There was a common proverb of old, "What is it to the Romans that the Greeks die?" So we think that our dangers and calamities only belong to ourselves. But how does this principle agree with the commandment of God? For his will is that we should all live together, and be to each other as brethren.

We need a millstone around our neck to keep us humble.

Each must watch over his own conscience, and therefore each must have the right to judge spirits and prophets; but no one has the right to take the sword for himself.

He who sleeps does not sin.

A Christian man is the most free lord of all, and subject to none; a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and subject to every one.

Every minister should make much of his calling and impress upon others the fact that he has been delegated by God to preach the Gospel.

The Law has a promise but it is a conditional promise, depending upon whether people fulfill the Law.

No matter how insignificant the little office may be, they take a foot though they do not have an inch,73 and always want to be God themselves when they ought to be God's maid.

God has found out the guilt of your servants;

Let us act wisely, therefore, and in the fear of God.