Quotes about Responsibility

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected: if not, they will be despised; and with regard to those to whom no power is delegated, but who assume it, the rational world can know nothing of them.

Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.

It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.

When we profess God's name, but do not live answerably to it, we take it in vain.

Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: "God means my sins;" when it presseth any duty, "God intends me in this." Many put off Scripture from themselves, as if it only concerned those who lived in the time when it was written; but if you intend to profit by the word, bring it home to yourselves: a medicine will do no good unless it be applied.

What is the duty which God requireth of man? Obedience to his revealed will. It is not enough to hear God's voice, but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honour we owe to God.

Who can have a better right to us than he that gives us our breath?

There is no one member of the body breaks forth more in God's dishonour than the tongue.

A man may as well go to hell for not working in his calling, as for not believing.