Quotes about Obligation
The Christian has a great obligation to be ethical and honest in all things, even sometimes at personal hazard. It is in the difficult situation that the qualities of a Christian are seen.
— Billy Graham
We have been trying to solve every ill of society as though society were made up of regenerate men to whom we had an obligation to speak with Christian advice.
— Billy Graham
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
— Soren Kierkegaard
No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.
— AW Tozer
In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.
— Khalil Gibran
Great power involves great responsibility
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority.
— Henry David Thoreau
The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.
— Rowan Williams
Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'
— Adrian Rogers
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought
— Abraham Lincoln
Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
— Audrey Hepburn
Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join.
— Elbert Hubbard