Quotes About Duty

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . .

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

When you faithfully follow the three duties of a Christian, God rewards you openly.

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.

When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty.

I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

Do your duty and think about God all day from morning to evening. See everything as God.

If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.

[History is] the very servant of the servants of God, the drudge of all the drudges.

To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise.

As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.

God primes the pump of obligation.

God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to fear. We have no need to worry. Our imperative need is to be found doing our duty.

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.