Quotes about Accountability

One day we will all stand alone and answer to God for the choices we have made in our lives. It will not be enough to say we did not get help because no one would come with us. Life is not easy, but we make it much more difficult when we refuse to be honest about what we feel. For the short term, not being honest may seem easier, but in the long haul, we pay a heavy price.

I try to lead a life where I don't have to ask God for forgiveness.

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.

At the end of your life on earth you will be evaluated and rewarded according to how well you handled what God entrusted to you.

Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

They have forgotten these immortal words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor whose passion for truth drove him to confront Adolf Hitler and Germany:   Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.1.

Many have most foolishly said that it is quite impossible to show where divine sovereignty ends and creature accountability begins. Here is where creature responsibility begins: in the sovereign ordination of the Creator. As to His sovereignty, there is not and never will be any "end" to it!

He fully discharged the obligations of every relationship that He sustained, either to God or to man.

While men are rational creatures they are justly accountable for all they do, whatever the disposition of their hearts.

David was at much pains to cover up his wickedness, but ere long the all-seeing God sent one of His servants to say to him, "Thou art the man"!

Moreover, in the exercise of His sovereignty God never enforces the responsibility of the creature; and unless we keep both of these steadily in view, we not only become lopsided, but lapse into real error. The grace of God must not be magnified to the beclouding of His righteousness, nor His sovereignty pressed to the exclusion of human accountability.