Quotes about Accountability

Randy Alcorn describes his own learning about being a steward: If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets. He had entrusted—not given— to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.

Three, Christians who practice repentance should be the only ones allowed into church membership and leadership.

Hebrews 13:15—17, which says: Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

It's every man's business to see justice done.

Where there is great power, there is great responsibility.

Christian heroism, and indeed one perhaps sees little enough of that, is to risk unreservedly being oneself, an individual human being, this specific individual human being alone before God, alone in this enormous exertion and this enormous accountability

Win without boasting, lose without excuses - internalize your failures and externalize your victories.

As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.

Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)