Quotes about Responsibility

When your ears hear and your eyes see the sin, weakness, or failure of your husband or wife, it is never an accident; it is always grace. God loves your spouse, and he is committed to transforming him or her by his grace, and he has chosen you to be one of his regular tools of change. So, he will cause you to see, hear, and experience your spouse's need for change so that you can be an agent of his rescue.

As a parent you are never, ever dealing just with the words and actions of your children. You are always also dealing with the thing that controls their words and behavior: the heart.

Your job is be God's tool for the purpose of forming the image of God's Son in your children.

Grace allows you to face your sin, to own it and not shift the blame.

successful parenting is not about achieving goals (that you have no power to produce) but about being a usable and faithful tool in the hands of the One who alone is able to produce good things in your children.

If you put yourself in the center of your world, you will find plenty of things to complain about.

God didn't give you your children to build your reputation but to publicly proclaim his.

Parenting is about being God's ambassadors in the lives of our children.

The heart of the righteous weighs its answers" (Prov. 15:28).

You see, culture isn't the problem, people are.

parenting is either a thing of the highest treasure to you, and that is demonstrated in your choices, words, and actions every day, or it's not.

Children begin to lose respect for the parent who is content with a "do what I say and not as I do" relationship to children.