Pope John Paul II Quotes

No one is responsible under liberalism.

At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

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.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

God will himself one day hold all humans, and all human governments, to account, but the church has the responsibility in the present to speak words of truth and judgment in advance of that final holding-to-account.

Life is moral responsibility.

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

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

Today, not a numerous, but an active part of the German people are beginning to realize, not that they have been led astray, not that bad times await them, not that the war may end in defeat, but that what is happening is sin and that they are personally responsible for each terrible deed that has been committed - naturally, not in the earthly sense, but as Christians.

God puts no nation in supreme place which will not do supreme duty. God keeps no nation in supreme place which will not perform its supreme duty …

These people did their duty; they acted on my orders, so they are not guilty of anything. I accept their guilt myself. Try me.

I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

People are supposed to be responsible.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary

Men will be held accountable for the things which they have and not for the things they have not. ... All the light and intelligence communicated to them from their beneficent creator, whether it is much or little, by the same they in justice will be judged, and ... they are required to yield obedience and improve upon that and that only which is given, for man is not to live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.