Quotes about Responsibility

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

Leaders need the courage to acknowledge when something isn't working.

For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

If you catch poisonous fish, throw it back into the sea.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Authority forgets a dying king.

Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.

Today, each time an election rolls around Christians debate whether this or that candidate is "God's man" for the White House. Projecting myself back into Jesus' time, I had difficulty imagining him pondering whether Tiberius, Octavius, or Julius Caesar was "God's man" for the empire.

We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.