Quotes about Obligation

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

I could not really complain, because he had only given me his word of honor as security; I ought to have required of him something substantial.

If he was a wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Necessity knows no law.

He would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Never must the church tire of reminding men that they have a moral responsibility to be intelligent.

Come at once if convenient—if inconvenient come all the same. S.H.

Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.

Never do anything out of obligation. Do everything with gratitude and love.

Never do anything out of obligation. Do everything with gratitude and love. It's much more powerful that way.

The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.

Till you have savingly believed in Christ, all your desires, and pains, and prayers lay God under no obligation;