Quotes about Responsibility

It really is true that when you're living for you, the call to love others is always a burden for you

Just like Adam, when we blame people and situations for our problems, below the surface we are also making accusations against God.

I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Man is essentially 'finite freedom'; freedom not in the sense of indeterminacy but in the sense of being able to determine himself through decisions in the center of his being. Man, as finite freedom, is free within the contingencies of his finitude. But within these limits he is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become, to fulfill his destiny.

This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.

In all these warnings against pleasure, truth is mixed with untruth. Insofar as they strengthen our responsibility, they are true; insofar as they undercut our joy, they are wrong.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.

Be thankful when you made the right choices and admit it when you didn't.

While it is God who opens the door of opportunity, you must be available to walk through it.

Noah got drunk, which led to his grandson Canaan being cursed (Gen. 9:25).