Quotes about Responsibility

If our postmodern world seems highly subject to cynicism, skepticism, and what it does not believe in, if we now live in a post-truth America, then we "believers" must take at least partial responsibility for aiming our culture in this sad direction. The best criticism of the bad is still the practice of the better.

One of the few generalizations we can make in the field of universal spirituality is this: No one else is your problem.

Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).

Remember, He is giving it to us to manage, not to have. We are His bondservants, and we therefore do not have anything of our own. It is all His, and we must not spend it on ourselves unless He gives us permission.

The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience.

Our culture says, "If you don't own it, you won't take care of it." But Christians live by a higher standard: "Because God owns it, I must take the best care of it that I can." The Bible says, "Those who are trusted with something valuable must show they are worthy of that trust.

When someone begins to gossip to you, have the courage to say, "Please stop. I don't need to know this. Have you talked directly to that person?" People who gossip to you will also gossip about you. They cannot be trusted.

We bring God glory by worshiping him. Worship is our first responsibility to God. We worship God by enjoying him.

Servants don't fill up their time with other pursuits that could limit their availability.