Quotes about Responsibility

The Jesus Creed teaches us that a disciple's responsibility is to love God by following Jesus. You only follow someone else when your own lights or sense of direction are not good enough.

At the heart of the Ten Commandments is an Israelite's honesty about one's neighbor (Exod 20:16). At the heart of the Bible's ethic is telling the truth. Honesty mattered then and it matters now.

These common approaches fail the words of Jesus because in the Sermon Jesus calls his followers to do what he teaches. Those who don't do what he says, in fact, are condemned as foolish.

Many in our day climb under the moral shade of Matthew 7:1 to take the supposed high road in saying, "I'm not the judge." Those who take this supposed high road may be missing the whole point of Jesus' words: sin is sin, and one cannot follow Jesus and turn a blind eye to sin. What Jesus is calling us to here is not the absence of moral discernment.

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

My sense is that being a First Lady is a full-time job, but I'll know more when the time comes.

Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.