Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand-from the outset they must give up, as inappropriate to this topic, the very two questions that led them to deal with the ethical problem: 'How can I be good?' and 'How can I do something good?' Instead they must ask the wholly other, completely different question: 'What is the will of God?
Dietrich BonhoefferTag: ethics action responsibility duty
there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions.
Iain BanksTag: fear sin responsibility comfort the-devil devils fault
Ours is no ordinary calling. Great opportunities and privileges have been bestowed upon us. To us, as a people, has been entrusted the grand and glorious labor of laying the foundation of the kingdom of God upon the earth. Every act of our lives should be performed with this in view. Nothing should be done by anyone calling himself a Latter-day Saint that will conflict with the policy which God has announced as proper to be adopted in establishing that kingdom" (The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, p. 125).
Wilford WoodruffTag: responsibility
There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.
LeeAnn TaylorTag: life man woman world humanity people service spirituality responsibility earth spirit materialism belonging accountability ownership
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
Dwight D. EisenhowerTag: responsibility character leadership credit subordinates
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. If this is not the case, then humanity becomes — as it is already to a large extent — no more than a rabbit-warren. But this is no longer a “free-range” warren but a “battery” one, in the conditions of artificiality in which it lives, with artificial light and chemical feed.
Italo CalvinoTag: responsibility abortion human-life
...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the individuals who make up the system are unable to govern themselves.
Eleanor RooseveltTag: democracy responsibility self-government
With great abilities come great responsibilities; great power comes with great assignments.
With great age comes great reasoning; great actions come great experience.
With great battles come great victories; great trees come with great tap roots.
However, if a little faith can move great mountains, what then will a great faith do? Mysterious things... I guess
Tag: age experience power faith victory action responsibility actions mystery old-age reasoning mountains tree abilities mysterious battles responsibilities ability root big assignment much great-power big-dreams capabilities assignments geat-actions great-battles great-experience great-faith great-gifts great-great-things-great-things great-tap-roots great-trees great-victory little-faith move-mountains tap-roots to-whom-much-is-given
For if one is partly insane, one is also, juridically, partly sane, and if one is partly sane one is at least partly responsible for one's actions, and if one is partly responsible one is wholly responsible; for responsibility is, as they say, that state in which the individual has the power to devote himself to a specific purpose of his own free will, independently of any compelling necessity, and one cannot simultaneously possess and lack such self-determination.
Robert MusilTag: life responsibility
Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: freedom responsibility
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