Quotes about Responsibility

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.

Another sign of our effectual calling is diligence in our ordinary calling. Some boast of their high calling, but they lie idly at anchor. Religion does not seal warrants to idleness. Christians must not be slothful. Idleness is the devil's bath; a slothful person becomes a prey to every temptation. Grace, while it cures the heart, does not make the hand lame. He who is called of God, as he works for heaven, so he works in his trade.

Many are called, but few chosen " (Matt. xx. 16). This external call is insufficient to salvation, yet sufficient to leave men without excuse.

A godly man spiritualizes duty; he is not only for the doing of holy things but for the holy doing of things.

Worldly business often crowds into our duties, and while our mouths are speaking to God, our hearts are thinking of the world: