Human Responsibility Quotes

“The main difficulty encountered is to define the relationship between God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility. Many have summarily disposed of the difficulty by denying its existence. A certain class of theologians, in their anxiety to maintain man’s responsibility, have magnified it beyond all due proportions, until God’s sovereignty has been lost sight of, and in not a few instances flatly denied. Others have acknowledged that the Scriptures present both the sovereignty of God and the responsibility of man, but affirm that in our present finite condition and with our limited knowledge it is impossible to reconcile the two truths, though it is the bounden duty of the believer to receive both. The present writer believes that it has been too readily assumed that the Scriptures themselves do not reveal the several points which show the conciliation of God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility. While perhaps the Word of God does not clear up all the mystery (and this is said with reserve), it does throw much light upon the problem, and it seems to us more honoring to God and His Word to prayerfully search the Scriptures for the complete solution of the difficulty, and even though others have thus far searched in vain, that ought only to drive us more and more to our knees.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Sovereignty of God

“Every harm done to the society, is harm done to me - every injustice done to the society, is injustice done to me. Such should be the thinking of a responsible and civilized individual of the human society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law

“Animals do depend on human beings, therefore humans are responsible, not only because of one universe.”
― Petra Hermans

“God's sovereignty does not diminish our responsibility; rather, it empowers us to fulfill our purpose with confidence”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“The intersection of God's sovereignty and human responsibility is where divine purpose unfolds”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“God's sovereignty does not absolve us of our responsibility; it invites us to partner with Him in His redemptive work. The balance between the two concepts is a mystery, but within that mystery lies the beauty of our relationship with Him”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua