Quotes about Responsibility

I don't believe in being emotionally detached from patients. I work with and operate on human beings, all creatures of God, people in pain who need help. I don't know how I can work on a girl's brain--how I can have her life in my hands--and yet not become involved. I feel particularly strong attachments to children who seem so defenseless and who haven't yet had the chance to live a full life.

I believe that many of our pressing racial problems will be taken care of when we who are among the minorities will stand on our own feet and refuse to look to anybody else to save us from our situation.

Everyone should realize that today the average person lives to be about eighty years of age, the first twenty to twenty-five of which are used to either prepare oneself educationally — or not. For those who prepare well, about sixty years shall follow to reap the benefits; but for those who fail to prepare, there are sixty years to suffer the consequences.

Those who propelled our nation to the pinnacle status in a very short period of time also knew the importance of sacrifice. Now it sometimes seems our government leaders do not understand the concept of sacrifice. They have no problem with the populace sacrificing, but our federal government does not seem to know how to tighten its own belt, preferring to simply raise taxes to cover its own excesses

Make no excuses. Rationalize nothing. Blame no one. Humble yourself.

You and I need to obey God. When we do, the consequences of our obedience become God's problem and not ours.

I've become increasingly convinced that those we need to forgive most often grasp the least how much they've hurt us. If they understood and took responsibility, it wouldn't have taken the Cross to forgive them. It could have just happened over coffee.

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned. Matthew 12:37

God has a task for you—one He planned very long ago and suited for our present generation. Remember you are not responsible for completing anyone else's task, just yours. God desires for us to encourage one another in our tasks (see Heb. 10:24—25), but we are responsible only for completing our own.

If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body. James 3:2

You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But I will rebuke you and lay out the case before you. Psalm 50:21

The concept of God assigning or entrusting limited authority, under the umbrella of His own, to His children is consistent from Genesis to Revelation.