Quotes about Obligation

We need to be patient with him." "As he's patient with them?" "No, as God is patient with us. Contrary to what you're thinking right now, Atretes shouldn't be your first concern. Our first obligation is to the Lord." "I know, but..." "You know, but are you acting according to what you know or what you feel?"

It is another kind of marriage—the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat's explanation and his excuse.

Responsibility is the ability to respond.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

God never accepts a good inclination instead of a good action, where that action may be done; nay, so much the contrary, that, if a good inclination be not seconded by a good action, the want of that action is made so much the more criminal and inexcusable.South'sSermons.3. Agency

Once we've concluded that this earthly life of ours is a gift of divine mercy—and grateful recollection of this is our obligation—then we rightly stoop to consider this life's miserable condition. And by such consideration we disentangle ourselves from excessive desire for this life, which— as has been said—is our natural inclination.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.