Quotes about Responsibility

Jesus said, "Not everyone is mature enough to live a married life. It requires a certain aptitude and grace. Marriage isn't for everyone. Some, from birth seemingly, never give marriage a thought. Others never get asked—or accepted. And some decide not to get married for kingdom reasons. But if you're capable of growing into the largeness of marriage, do it.

Christian faith needs continuous maintenance. It requires attending to. "If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post.

Genuine apocalyptic that has no parentage in biblical sources or gospel commitments, does promote a progeny of irresponsibility (and the brats are noisily and distressingly in evidence on every American street), but the real thing, the conceived-in-holy-wedlock apocalyptic, develops communities that are passionately patient, courageously committed to witness and work in the kingdom of God no matter how long it takes, or how much it costs.

He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

Don't curse God; and don't damn your leaders.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit-you choose.

We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

When you go in there and fight, you pretty much relinquish and give up the right to make any excuses about something.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.