Quotes about Duty

It's every man's business to see justice done.

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Where there is great power, there is great responsibility.

As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.

Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

However, let us give ourselves to the study of the word, and to prayer; and may the great Teacher make every scriptural truth food to our souls. I desire to grow in knowledge, but I want nothing which bears that name that has not a direct tendency to make sin more hateful, Jesus more precious to my soul; and at the same time to animate me to a diligent use of every appointed means, and an unreserved regard to every branch of duty.

When we are duly apprized of our absolute dependence upon him and of our obligations to him as our Creator, Benefactor, and Lawgiver, sin will appear exceedingly sinful, and will bring a burden upon the conscience, which can only be removed by faith in the Redeemer.

Delighting in God was not a mere preference or option in life; it was our joyful duty and should be the single passion of our lives.

Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is the notion of morality as the disinterested performance of duty. But when worship is reduced to disinterested duty, it ceases to be worship. For worship is a feast.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.