Quotes about Accountability
Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but it the mirror will not wash your face.
— Ravi Zacharias
When the biblical premise of man being evil by nature is forsaken, society begins to believe that a criminal isn't really responsible for his crimes. People believe instead that societal conditions and life's circumstances are responsible, so the criminal gets a slap on the hand for violent crime since evil is no longer called evil. The lawbreaker is deemed rather to be sick or insane, and he receives rehabilitative treatment rather than punishment.
— Ray Comfort
Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.
— Reba McEntire
Every day carries with it a responsibility.
— Joseph Wirthlin
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
— John Henry Newman
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
— Barbara Kingsolver
God has established what man is supposed to do, and he expects man to do it his way and not a way independently of him. And when you do things independently of him, you have consequences you don't want to bear.
— Tony Evans
God has been faithful time and again to surround me with people that sharpen me and that make me better.
— TobyMac
Black women are acting irresponsibly by giving birth to baby after baby out of wedlock. Most of these children are from different fathers as well.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.
— John Tillotson
When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.
— Mark Twain
The fault is in the system and not in the men.
— Peter Drucker