Quotes about Responsibility

There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us calls 'myself.' Personal holiness and global holiness belong together. Those who wake up to the one may well find themselves called to wake up to the other as well.

Sin" is not just "doing things God has forbidden." It is, as we saw, the failure to be fully functioning, God-reflecting human beings.

The malediction is upon him even if the law does not exact it.

Our task is to encourage our husbands to obey God's Word and will for their lives.

Art is a visual language, and Christians have a responsibility to learn that language.

Lived out consistently, postmodernism leads to complicity with evil and injustice.

Our actions are not simply links in a closed chain of causally connected physical events. We have the capacity to be first causes, starting a new chain of cause and effect.

For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

Lethargy is evident in churches when the people have no sense of ownership.

We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded.