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Quotes about Duty

The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.
— Martin Luther
Someone needs to be their guardian on the that trail. I'm taking that job.
— Mary Connealy
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, - 'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions
— Jerry Falwell
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty
— George Eliot
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
— Samuel Johnson
The day the church can no longer say, "We must obey God rather than human beings" (Acts 5:29), it ceases to be the church.
— NT Wright
He might have been a wafer in the hands Of priests this day, or music from the lips: Of red-robed choristers, instead he slips Away from church, shakes off our linen bands To don his apron with a nurse: he grips And lifts a stretcher, soothes with gentle hands The frail flesh of the dying, gives them hope, Breathes with the breathless, lends them strength to cope.
— NT Wright
Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and many others speak of dying for the law, for one's country, one's friends, one's family, even for the emperor.
— NT Wright
We all know that it's no good simply telling people to love one another. One more exhortation to love, to patience, to forgiveness, may remind us of our duty. But as long as we think of it as duty we aren't very likely to do it. The point of 1 Corinthians 13 is that love is not our duty; it is our destiny.
— NT Wright
We all know that it's no good simply telling people to love one another. One more exhortation to love, to patience, to forgiveness, may remind us of our duty. But as long as we think of it as duty we aren't very likely to do it. The point of 1 Corinthians 13 is that love is not our duty; it is our destiny.
— NT Wright
Men will be drawn back into family life only when they are convinced that being a good husband and father is a manly thing to do. That parental duty and sacrifice are masculine virtues. That marital love and fidelity are not female standards imposed on men externally but an integral part of the male character. Something inherent and original, created by God.
— Nancy Pearcey