Quotes about Accountability

An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

Every time you make a bad choice, it becomes harder to make a good one.

If we're morally responsible for monitoring our own souls, then we're morally responsible, as well, for monitoring the soul of our nation.

Part of being a Christian is recognizing that sin deceives us, and we need other believers to help us see the things we cannot see about ourselves. Joining a church, I've often said, is like throwing paint on the invisible man. New sins become visible in the course of our discipling relationships.

Yet the Bible teaches that the local church is the natural environment for discipling. In fact, it teaches that the local church is itself the basic discipler of Christians. It does this through its weekly gatherings and its accountability structures (this chapter), as well as its elders and its members (next chapter). These in turn provide the context for the one-on-one discipling we have been considering so far.