Quotes about Accountability

Here is a community goal: to be able to identify one pattern of sin in our lives.

If the potential presence/arrival of another person can reveal the ungodliness in our behavior, how much more the coming of Christ himself?

Where everyone is responsible, no one is really responsible.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

If republican government is to be responsible, it must be responsive to the people and answerable to their will. But if it is to be responsible in the more positive sense, it must go beyond mere responsiveness and be able to serve the people's true interests or their reasonable will, even if this course of conduct is not immediately popular.

If your watch is slow by just four minutes, that's not much - unless you've been warned that if you're even one minute late ever again you will be fired. Then four minutes make a big difference.

You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter.

This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

A lot of people think that they are leaders just because they have been placed in charge of something - and you're not.