Quotes about Responsibility

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

The decisions you're making today will impact your tomorrows.

Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

Other helpful passages include Job 31:1, Proverbs 6:27, Mark 9:42ff., Ephesians 5:3-7, and 2 Timothy 2:22, some of which are commented upon below.)

Faith spawns reflexive steps of obedience. It steps out. We must not imagine that we have faith if we do not obey.

Men, if we are not praying in detail for our wives and children, we are sinning.

Men, as fathers you have such power! You will have this terrible power till you die, like it or not — in your attitude toward authority, in your attitude toward women, in your regard for God and the Church. What terrifying responsibilities! This is truly the power of life and death.

lost her only son—and Elijah to blame.