Quotes about Responsibility
So while the Bible asserts both God's sovereignty and people's freedom and moral responsibility, it never attempts to explain their relationship.
— Jerry Bridges
The relationship of the sovereign will of God to the freedom and moral responsibility of people is one of those mysteries.
— Jerry Bridges
The second truth we must keep in mind is that God is never the author of sin.
— Jerry Bridges
The third truth to keep before us is that the Bible consistently portrays people as making real choices of their own will.
— Jerry Bridges
First, we should never use the doctrine as an excuse for our own shortcomings.
— Jerry Bridges
Third, we must never use the doctrine of God's sovereignty to excuse our own sinful actions or decisions that hurt another person.
— Jerry Bridges
Just as we saw in chapter 4 that God is sovereign in the hearts of individuals, whose decisions and actions affect us, so God is also sovereign in the decisions and actions of government as they affect
— Jerry Bridges
God sometimes causes government leaders or officials to make foolish decisions in order to bring judgment upon a nation.
— Jerry Bridges
Historically, God has not spared the righteous when He judges a nation (though He is well able to do so if He chooses, see Exodus 9:5-7).
— Jerry Bridges
Yet God does this in such a way that these people make their decisions and carry out their plans by their own free and voluntary choices.
— Jerry Bridges
We should take more seriously our responsibility to pray for the leaders of our government that they will make wise decisions.
— Jerry Bridges
We do know God has instructed us to pray for leaders. Our duty, then, is to pray for wise decisions, but to trust when foolish and harmful decisions are made.
— Jerry Bridges