Quotes about Responsibility
Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven.
— Ezra Taft Benson
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
— Oscar Wilde
We get what we deserve in life, and the challenges and evils that come are opportunities to overcome.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
We want to pin a reason to it or else we get terrified anyone else might do the same thing. Including us.
— Steven James
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin - but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon.
— William Wallace
I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems.
— Tony Campolo
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
— Calvin Coolidge
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
— Thomas Merton
Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.
— Dolly Parton
What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.
— Thomas a Kempis
Christian faith is therefore a "prophetic" faith that seeks to mend the world. An idle or redundant faith—a faith that does not seek to mend the world—is a seriously malfunctioning faith
— Miroslav Volf
Everything else follows from this responsibility to those who have come before us. It is the root of flourishing humanity.
— Miroslav Volf