Quotes about Responsibility

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

It is time for us Christians to face up to our responsibility for holiness. Too often we say we are "defeated" by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient. It might be well if we stopped using the terms "victory" and "defeat" to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms "obedience" and "disobedience.

There's light enough for wot I've got to do.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

The universe makes rather an indifferent parent, I'm afraid.

We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done- of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired! There is no remorse so deep as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time.

unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.

we have done wrong, and are reaping the fruits of wrong.