Quotes about Responsibility

We are to count on this fact that we are dead to sin's rule, that we can stand up to it and say no. Therefore we are to guard our bodies so that sin does not reign in us. So we see that God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we can now resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours.

Though the power for godly character comes from Christ, the responsibility for developing and displaying that character is ours.

views our disobedience.

Whether fellowship is perceived as participation or partnership, in either case it implies a responsibility to fulfill our function in the body. We usually don't think of fellowship in terms of fulfilling a responsibility, but that is because we have lost sight of the biblical meaning of fellowship. Fellowship is not just a social privilege to enjoy; it is more basically a responsibility to assume.

But this is what servant-hood within the fellowship of believers is all about: being alert to the little things that need to be done and then doing them.

we reduce God's control over our lives to a stop-and-go, in-and-out proposition.

God is sovereign over the nations. He is sovereign over the officials of our own government in all their actions as they affect us, directly or indirectly.

Fellowship is not just a social privilege to enjoy; it is more basically a responsibility to assume.

But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather.

So while the Bible asserts both God's sovereignty and people's freedom and moral responsibility, it never attempts to explain their relationship.

The relationship of the sovereign will of God to the freedom and moral responsibility of people is one of those mysteries.

The second truth we must keep in mind is that God is never the author of sin.