Quotes about Responsibility
She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.
— Proverbs 31:15
She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.
— Proverbs 31:27
I have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them.
— Ecclesiastes 3:10
It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.
— Ecclesiastes 5:5
The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
— Ecclesiastes 5:9
Keep the king’s command, I say, because of your oath before God.
— Ecclesiastes 8:2
When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
— Ecclesiastes 8:11
Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.
— Ecclesiastes 10:18
When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: Fear God and keep His commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.
— Ecclesiastes 12:13
Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected.
— Song of Solomon 1:6
But my own vineyard is mine to give; the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon, and two hundred are for those who tend its fruit.
— Song of Solomon 8:12
When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?
— Isaiah 1:12