Quotes about Responsibility

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way.

If life ends at the grave, then it makes no ultimate difference whether you live as a Stalin or as a Mother Teresa. Since your destiny is ultimately unrelated to your behavior, you may as well just live as you please. As the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky put it: "If there is no immortality … then all things are permitted.

It's a really, really scary thing to stand here, to put words in people's mouths to say to God. It's terrifying to me. You potentially could mess someone up for...I don't know, eternity.

7th July, 1871.—I was annoyed by a woman frequently beating a slave near my house, but on my reproving her she came and apologized. I told her to speak softly to her slave, as she was now the only mother the girl had;

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

God will not move unless I say it. Why? because He has made us coworkers with Him. He set things up that way.

There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.

The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.

Our responsibility is to get God's word to their ears. Only God can get the word from their ears to their heart.

I have nothing to hide. I am a servant of the living God. He is the only one I answer to.

We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.