Quotes about Accountability

Working diligently to straighten up our actions without understanding either what it means to deeply repent or what it is that needs to be scrubbed away by repentance will make us more smug than penetrating. We'll pressure others to do right rather than draw them to want to do right. P195

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.

Knowledge of God is knowledge of living with God. Israel's religious existence consists of three inner attitudes: engagement to the living God to whom we are accountable; engagement to Torah where His voice is audible; and engagement to His concern as expressed in mitsvot (commandments).

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty.

Someone put her out of her misery if she ever became impervious to taking a life, when squeezing the trigger stopped being a regret.

A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and men.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Nothing can be more cruel than that leniency which abandons others to their sin.