Quotes about Obligation

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

Our position in life should never determine our posture in service.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

By virtue of being created by God, the world knows how to live and is under obligation to live that way, but it has declined. It has thus "profaned" the earth, made it something God no longer wishes to have anything to do with, something God could not continue to have anything to do with without compromising who he is.

Parenthood is an unspeakably solemn matter.

Is God obliged to force His gift on those who value it not?

It is impossible to bring the Almighty under obligations to the creature; God gains nothing from us.

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.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.

Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness. How inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable was the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.