Quotes about Responsibility

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

The good husbandman may pluck His roses and gather in His liles at midsummer, and, for ought I dare say, in the beginning of the first summer month; and He may transplant young trees out of the lower ground to the higher, where they have more of the sun, and a more free air, at any season of the year. What is that to you or me? The goods are his own.

duties are ours, events are the Lord's.

Rutherford held that the people were the "fountain-power" of political authority, and that they were the ones who delegated this authority to the magistrates. He also demonstrated that when such authority was abused, the people had the authority to rescind that delegation.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.