Quotes about Obligation

What is the point of standing up for rights in a world where few stand up for their responsibilities? Your rights will do you little good unless others are responsible

Dogma is what you have to believe, whether you believe it or not. And law is what you must do, whether it is good for you or not.

"I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny."

the idea (not mine: your great-grandfather's) being that even at eleven a man should already have behind him one year of paying for, assuming responsibility for, the space he occupied, the room he took up, in the world's (Jefferson, Mississippi's, anyway) economy.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

We can't do every good thing there is to do in the world. Too many Christians live under the terror of total obligation, thinking every act of injustice, every opportunity of ministry, and every urgent appeal are our responsibilities.

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

Human nature being what it is, if you told me you were going to give me one dollar with no strings attached, I probably wouldn't question the gift too much. But if you told me you wanted to give me one hundred dollars with no obligation, I'd have to think about it for a minute before accepting.

To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.

My parents' sacrifice and hard work obligated me to be successful, it wasn't an option to fail.

Work is not optional for those able to do work, and that's most of us. There are to be no shirkers in the Lord's kingdom.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.