Quotes About Obligation

ROMANS 13:8 8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath FULFILLED THE LAW. GALATIANS 5:14 14 For all THE LAW IS FULFILLED in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

The Christian must see God's Law as a guide for his own personal behavior. God's Law is law, not suggestion. It is fundamentally obligatory, not merely recommended.

There's one thing I hope we will all be able to agree on. It's about our commitments. I'm talking about Social Security. To every American out there on Social Security, to every American supporting that system today, and to everyone counting on it when they retire, we made a promise to you, and we are going to keep it.

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.

People think you have only to 'tell' a person that he 'ought' to do something in order to put him on the right track. But whether he can or will do it is another matter.

Am I my brother's keeper?

I think that I also don't know what possibility and obligation are, but I know very clearly what need is. Desire? … Desire, we make up.

It follows that to embrace deep work in your own career, and to direct it toward cultivating your skill, is an effort that can transform a knowledge work job from a distracted, draining obligation into something satisfying—a portal to a world full of shining, wondrous things.

Duty and honor, I thought. Stern and difficult taskmasters, but I must obey them both now.

My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

Freedom of will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

él estaba cumpliendo con su deber, estaba haciendo no lo que quería sino lo que tenía que hacer

She felt almost tearfully grateful to be off the hook, and residually angry because she was always on the hook.

So you owe me." "Exactly. I pay in kisses." "Good thing I accept that currency.

She says I owe her." "And you always pay your debts? What kind of craziness is that?" "Some people would say it's honorable." "Some people are stupid.

Alla fine della giornata, riportare il libro che la biblioteca vuole è il mio dovere e il mio onore, e questo è tutto ciò che conta davvero.

If God's suggesting that I am expected to do good and also obligated to manufacture a genuine desire for it, this boat's sunk, still sitting on the trailer in the driveway. A stack of things need to happen before I desire to be good…

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Honor the names that you bear, because someday you will have the privilege and the obligation of reporting to [your ancestors] (and your Father in Heaven) what you have done with their name.

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

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Perry had come to end those offenses — but more importantly to secure trading opportunities and coaling facilities and to awaken the Japanese to their "Christian obligation to join the family of Christendom," which the secretary of the Navy had confided was the mission's underlying motive.