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Quotes About Obligation

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God's debtor.
~ Saint Augustine
The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.
~ Stephen King, The Green Mile
Duty is ours and events are God's.
~ Angelina Grimke
God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.
~ Annie Dillard
Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
~ Benjamin Haydon
My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. Oh my God, they're $4 million in the hole.
~ Chris Rock
Why, thou owest god a death.
~ William Shakespeare
What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Has it ever dawned on you that you are responsible spiritually to God for other people?
~ Oswald Chambers
To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Because Adam, God's deputy on earth, transfered his legal dominion to Satan, God became obligated to recognize Satan's legal standing.
~ Ed Silvoso
God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
~ George Eliot
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
~ George Herbert
Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.
~ Henry Clay Trumbull
It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.
~ John Calvin
If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.
~ John Taylor
Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.
~ Joseph Alexander Leighton
God is not obligated to anoint what He does not initiate.
~ Joyce Meyer
The sacred duty of every soul is to fear God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.
~ Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
What does the Lord God requires of us:To love what is good.To do justice.To do what is right.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and hes a good friend.
~ Obie Trice
It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.
~ Julian Baggini