Quotes about Responsibility
Shall we presume on God's grace by tolerating in ourselves the very sin that nailed Christ to the cross?
— Jerry Bridges
Our goal in the pursuit of godliness should be to grow more in our conscious awareness that every moment of our lives is lived in the presence of God; that we are responsible to Him and dependent on Him. This goal would include a growing desire to please Him and glorify Him in the most ordinary activities of life.
— Jerry Bridges
It is relatively easy to serve those above us — even the world expects this — but Jesus served downward.
— Jerry Bridges
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.
— Jerry Bridges
Though the power for godly character comes from Christ, the responsibility for developing and displaying that character is ours.
— Jerry Bridges
views our disobedience.
— Jerry Bridges
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.
— Jerry Bridges
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.
— Jerry Bridges
we reduce God's control over our lives to a stop-and-go, in-and-out proposition.
— Jerry Bridges
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.
— Jerry Bridges
Fellowship is not just a social privilege to enjoy; it is more basically a responsibility to assume.
— Jerry Bridges
But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather.
— Jerry Bridges