Quotes about Accountability

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

You are responsible for allocating your life.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

A free man, when he fails, blames nobody.

The upper lip is like a groom, to wit: The lower lip is like his fiancee. But that which splits in two will surely split into two hundred just as easily. And everything that's been twofold is then accountable, is then no longer moot.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

So today, at the end of the twentieth century, we have a phenomenon unthinkable in any other century: churchless Christians. There is a vast herd of professed Christians who exist as nomadic hitchhikers without accountability, without discipline, without discipleship, living apart from the regular benefits of the ordinances.

Other helpful passages include Job 31:1, Proverbs 6:27, Mark 9:42ff., Ephesians 5:3-7, and 2 Timothy 2:22, some of which are commented upon below.)

Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?

Heaven will be filled with people who realize throughout eternity they have no right to be there.