personal development on Roles and Responsibilities

The word vocation is a rich one, having to address the wholeness of life, the range of relationships and responsibilities. Work, yes, but also families, and neighbors, and citizenship, locally and glo...

In the eleventh century, King Henry III of Bavaria grew tired of court life and the pressures of being a monarch. He made application to Prior Richard at a local monastery, asking to be accepted as a ...

When Ministry Burnout Leaves You Empty I imagine that some of you feel like you have nothing left to give. Perhaps you’re in a period in which motivation has morphed into varying degrees of desponde...

Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

When you become a leader, you must focus more on your responsibilities than on your rights.

The task of Christian spokespersons, leaders, and professionals is to exemplify and teach foundational traits of the good life Jesus manifests. But this must also include the more specific traits requ...

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Duty is ours; results are God’s.

It must be remembered that life consists not of a series of illustrious actions, or elegant enjoyments; the greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily ...

Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

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 op...

Almost all of us feel torn by the things we want to do, by the demands placed on us, by the many responsibilities we have.

We can rightly ask, What does it mean to take responsibility for my life in response to the way God has made and called me? The response to this question is that we learn how to work with the hand tha...

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

Relational congruence is the ability to be fundamentally the same person with the same values in every relationship, in every circumstance and especially amidst crisis. It is the internal capacity to ...

A little person in a little place can use a little thing, perform a little task, and receive a great reward.

You stay alive in the practice of leadership by reducing the extent to which you become the target of people’s frustrations. The best way to stay out of range is to think constantly about giving the w...

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.

A father's responsibility is not to make the child's decisions, but to let the child watch him make his.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Change will happen whether you like it or not. Positive change, however, requires choice. You can choose to accept natural change or you can choose to fight it. . . . The power to choose is yours. The...

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?'”.

Contemporary society assumes that we make a choice: one member of a household will be the “homemaker” and the other the “breadwinner” (i.e., in the marketplace generating income to sustain the home). ...