Quotes about Accountability

A power structure that is accountable only to itself will always end by abusing the powerless. If exposed, it will ask, paternalistically, to be allowed to repair the damage on its own.

Not satisfied with endlessly pulling drowning men from the torrents rushing past, Day went upstream to see who was throwing the poor bastards into the water in the first place—and

You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.

When the people of God are not told the works of God, they lose the wonder of God, and everyone does that which is right in his or her own eyes.

Too often, we think of sin as self-contained, point-in-time choices with no interconnection or momentum. But sin refuses to remain contained in the moment it is conceived.

Nothing worse than a man who makes excuses, blames others, and refuses responsibility for his own actions." No doubt there were real experiences that underlined the worthlessness of excuse makers for these men.

Watch out for the people who say that all is good between them and God but have no interest in being reconciled with the people whom their sin has injured.

I challenge you to be finished with rationalizations and hypocrisy.

Men act like men at home when they realize they will be held responsible for how well they represented God to their family.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow

This, she felt, was her fault. Her idea in the first place. Her house. Her honeymoon. Her — and this was the incalculable factor in the thing — her husband. (A repressive word, that, when you came to think of it, compounded of a grumble and a thump.) The