Quotes About Obligation

If we be never obliged to relieve others' burdens, but when we can do it without burdening ourselves, then how do we bear our neighbor's burdens, when we bear no burden at all?

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

God has laid himself under no obligation, by any promise, to keep any natural man out of hell one moment. God certainly has made no promises either of eternal life, or of any deliverance or preservation from eternal death, but what are contained in the covenant of grace, the promises that are given in Christ, in whom all the promises are yea and amen.

tis plain and manifest, that whatever pains a natural man takes in religion, whatever prayers he makes, till he believes in Christ, God is under no manner of obligation to keep him a moment from eternal destruction.

Our obligation to love, honor and obey any being is in proportion to his loveliness, honor and authority. Therefore, sin against God, being a violation of infinite obligations must be a crime infinitely heinous and so deserving infinite punishment. If there is any evil in sin against God it is infinite evil.

God is under no manner of obligation to show mercy to any natural man, whose heart is not turned to God: and that a man can challenge nothing either in absolute justice, or by free promise, from any thing he does before he has believed on Jesus Christ, or has true repentance begun in him.

most of the duties incumbent on us, if well considered, will be found to partake of the nature of justice.

As you get older you strip away the things you don't have time for, and then you are left with only the things you have time for. Your life gets skinnier and skinnier until you wonder why you go on. You go on because there are things that must get done. You become no longer a person so much as a place, an unfunny place where things come to get done.

ham-and-eggs breakfast, the chicken's involved but the pig's committed.

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

What would be seen as charity in other legal systems is, in Judaism, a strict requirement of the law, enforceable by the courts.

What cannot be changed, must be endured," he said grimly. "Our duty now is to the living.

Su palabra equivale a un contrato

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Can you understand when I tell you that you owe me nothing? That to have a child is an account which is settled on the spot

No era un héroe, sino un hombre que se avergonzaba de haber desistido de continuar siendo lo que en su momento había sido: un odiador profundo de la grandeza, de esa obligación de tener que ser alguien en la vida, un odiador del poder. Un amante de los escritores de rostros secretos y de la discreción en la literatura.

Obedience is your moral obligation, but it is never, ever your means of achieving or maintaining relationship with God.

The term "noblesse oblige"—the idea that those who have been blessed with much are to use it to help those who have not been so blessed—would not be coined for another half-century, and Wilberforce had yet to discover the relevance of any such idea to his own life.

freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God.

The rich world of his ancestors set the standards for Dietrich Bonhoeffer's own life. It gave him a certainty of judgment and manner that cannot be acquired in a single generation. He grew up in a family that believed the essence of learning lay not in a formal education but in the deeply rooted obligation to be guardians of a great historical heritage and intellectual tradition.

The rich world of his ancestors set the standards for Dietrich Bonhoeffer's own life. It gave him a certainty of judgment and manner that cannot be acquired in a single generation. He grew up in a family that believed the essence of learning lay not in a formal education but in the deeply rooted obligation to be guardians of a great historical heritage and intellectual tradition. —EBERHARD BETHGE

I take no pleasure of what needs to be done! - 343 Guilty Spark

Loyalty is what matters, and that exists now, not in the past. Loyalty must be prove every day, in each piece of fresh-kill brought back to the Clan, every claw mark on our enemies, every patrol, every training session.