Quotes about Due

Who would not fear You, O King of nations? This is Your due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

What could be less than to afford Him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay Him thanks? How due! Yet all His good proved ill in me And wrought but malice. Lifted up so high

in Augustine with this expression, - "God crowns not our merits but his own gifts; and the name of reward is given not to what is due to our merits, but to the recompense of grace previously bestowed?"

Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline, the measure of what we believe to be our due. When our comfort level drops below our expectations, we are shocked and angered, and even foolishly express our outrage to God Himself.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none.

We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.