Quotes about Accountability
Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.
- Frank Peretti
Great power involves great responsibility
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Rationalization begins with a look in the mirror.
- Brennan Manning
We also need guides: spiritual friends, a spiritual director, or a spiritual accountability group that can function for us as a safe place to bear our souls.
- Henri Nouwen
The goal of spiritual direction is spiritual formation—the ever-increasing capacity to live a spiritual life from the heart. A spiritual life cannot be formed without discipline, practice, and accountability.
- Henri Nouwen
I wish my countrymen to consider, that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual, without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing that you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you have a heart for living God's way, you will want to ensure that your life is answerable to him (Ps. 25:4-5).
- Henry Blackaby
I tell young guys, you need to build accountability into your life to avoid the pitfalls.
- Ted DiBiase Sr.
The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.
- Bernice King
Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
- Pope John Paul II