Quotes about Responsibility

If we will not prepare to give all that we have and that all that we are to preserve Christian civilization in our land, we shall go to destruction.

People, like charity, begins at home.

One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

Just because I'm a wren doesn't mean I can't preach an eagle message. Of course I can. Is that a lack of integrity if I preach something bigger than I can even feel, if I preach a message that I haven't even grown to? That's not a lack of integrity. That's accepting the call. That's what it is because there's too much at stake to do otherwise.

We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

There is no escaping the gospel logic that all our thoughts, words, and deeds addressed to others are in a real way addressed to Christ himself.

The Christian leader cannot simply be persons who have well informed opinions about the burning issues of our time.

As the Father, I have to dare to carry the responsibility of a spiritually adult person and dare to trust that the real joy and real fulfillment can only come from welcoming home those who have been hurt and wounded on their life's journey, and loving them with a love that neither asks nor expects anything in return.

she said, Whether you are the younger son or the elder son, you have to realize that you are called to become the father.

As the beloved son, I have to claim my full dignity and begin preparing myself to become the father.