Accountable To God Quotes

#1. Each of us is accountable to God for our personal holiness. Humbling yourself by letting others into your life and allowing them to help you and hold you accountable will release the sanctifying, transforming grace of God in your life.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#2. Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote ... that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.

Samuel Adams

#3. We are accountable to [God] for the way we use our time.

Billy Graham

#4. We need to be accountable to God's family. Once we start living in a way that is people-friendly to all of God's family, we will also be environment-friendly.

Desmond Tutu

#5. Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

Nathanael Emmons

#6. Although we have responsibilities to others, we are primarily accountable to God. It is before him that we stand, and to him that one day we must give an account. We should not therefore rate human opinion too highly ...

John Stott

#7. Accountability is the natural product of agency and is the basis of the plan of life. We are responsible for our own actions and accountable to God for what we choose to do with our lives. Life is God's gift to us, and what we do with it is our gift to him.

Elaine Cannon

#8. I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.

George Washington

#9. Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Elie Wiesel

#10. Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

John Oldham

#11. Why would science ever recognize God;
that would make [them] accountable for their crimes against [him].

Craig Smedley

#12. It's hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you've failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.

Lee Strobel

#13. God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.

Billy Graham

#14. God does not hold our environment accountable for our behavior; he holds us accountable. (p79)

Donovan L. Graham

#15. You must try to understand, my dearest one. It was not treason, was but a dream bred before its time, that the King should not be accountable only to God. No mortal man ought to be entrusted with power such as that, for any king's son may be born a fool.

Sharon Kay Penman

#16. Let no man hold you accountable for something God Almighty has already forgiven you for.

Elissa Gabrielle

#17. Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up.

Ezra Taft Benson

#18. David's experience of unmitigated blessing from the hand of God might have lulled David into thinking that he was not accountable and that God would continue to bless him no matter what David did or did not do (what Walter Brueggemann describes as "moral autonomy").

David R. Bauer

#19. I'm only afraid of dying if I'm to be held accountable for what I did while living. If there's no God or reckoning, I'm like, whew!

Dana Gould

#20. Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#21. The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Daniel Dennett

#22. I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and that's what we must be accountable to every day.

Mario Benedetti

#23. I am accountable.
I am correctable.
I am transformable.
Presenting myself a living sacrifice to God.
By the love of God.
By the word of God.
Completely supplied in Christ Jesus.
Unto all good works.

Carlton T. Brown

#24. To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

George Berkeley

#25. In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us accountable if we do not now move the Book of Mormon in a monumental way.

Ezra Taft Benson

#26. When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it.

Gary Hopkins

#27. God exist whether or not men may choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God is not so much that it is intellectually impossible to believe in God, but because belief in God forces that thoughtful person to face the fact that he is accountable to such a God.

Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw

#28. You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked.

Lorenzo Snow

#29. When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.

Roger Housden

#30. Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

James L. Buckley

#31. Scripture is God speaking. Though the words they'd read had been penned more than a thousand years earlier, still God spoke in the reading of those words. Jesus held them accountable for the words of Scripture as if God Himself had spoken those words directly to them!

James R. White

#32. Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#33. In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.

Maya Angelou

#34. Every parent's first responsibility is to teach his child that there is a God to whom he's accountable and that God has certain commands that we're obligated to obey.

Robert Jeffress

#35. 69The righteous are not in any way held accountable for the wrongdoers; their only duty is to remind them, so that they may be mindful of God.

Anonymous

#36. Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.

John Tyler

#37. To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and blessed by God.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#38. The reaction of whatever you do will continue punishing you (hold you accountable). I do not have to come to punish you," says God.

Dada Bhagwan