Quotes about Responsibility

God wants us to participate in the governance of his kingdom.

Robbed of its reference to a transcendent spiritual being or substance that nonetheless personally engages with humanity while holding them responsible to its specific directives on how to live, this "love" ("God") has no recourse but to become whatever the current ideology says it is. Currently that means not treating people as different, while liberating them and enabling them to do what they want.

But responsibility and initiative are the heart of our relationship with God. We are not robots, and he does not work with robots.

Dogma is what you have to believe, whether you believe it or not. And law is what you must do, whether it is good for you or not.

You cannot choose conditions and reject the consequences. Even a "bill of rights" cannot change that.

We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in heaven or burn forever in hell — we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain.

A measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

"I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny."

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.