Quotes about Accountability

The people who are most vulnerable to overextending themselves on behalf of ministry relationships are people who struggle with intimacy—both with God and others. Ministry can be a great place for them to feel connected and loved, but the truth is, without the accountability that only comes from covenant friendships, they are just being set up for burnout or compromise.

Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.

Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up.

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Organizations are no longer built on force, but on trust.