Quotes about Responsibility
God is only God when he is acting as such.
— Gordon Hinckley
God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.
— Gordon Hinckley
Something good made something bad possible (though not inevitable). Humans, however, didn't use their freedom well. Instead of using it to honor God in friendship, they used it to rebel.
— Greg Koukl
God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.
— Heinrich Heine
We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.
— Henry B. Eyring
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
— Henry Ward Beecher
But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!
— Herman Melville
The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
— JI Packer
It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.
— Jerry Falwell
I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.
— Joel Osteen
I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.
— Joel Osteen
My potential is what God gives me - that's His gift to me - what I give back to Him is what I do with that potential.
— John Maxwell