Quotes about Accountability
God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
- DA Carson
Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
- John Piper
I think to trust in the sovereignty of God does not excuse my personal responsibility. Just the opposite - it equips me to be personally responsible.
- Max Lucado
What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.
- Mother Teresa
The only expenditure, and all its outworkings, for which God can be held to be responsible is that which He directs.
- Amy Carmichael
Your damnation is your own election, not God's.
- Charles Spurgeon
God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.
- Jerry Bridges
When we don't take God too seriously, others don't take our leadership too seriously!
- Beth Moore
We are not responsible to God for the soul that are saved, but we are responsible for the Gospel that is preached, and for the way in which we preach it
- Charles Spurgeon
'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.
- GK Chesterton
We may say simply that in the sight of God we are judged not so much by what we do as by our reasons for doing it.
- AW Tozer
If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.
- Andy Stanley