Quotes about Obligation

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

Only God can make the appointment, but only you can keep the appointment.

When your life is over, the world will ask you only one question: 'Did you do what you were supposed to do?'" That's not just a good question. That's the question... It cannot be answered with words. It must be answered with your life.

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

For we have vowed enough in baptism, more than we can ever fulfill; if we give ourselves to the keeping of this one vow, we shall have all we can do.

Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Those who belong to him are to believe and to live by the belief that they died and rose again with him, so that they are no longer under any slavish obligation to obey the old master.

Anyone who has worked within biblical scholarship knows, or ought to know, that we biblical scholars come to the text with just as many interpretative strategies and expectations as anyone else, and that integrity consists not of having no presuppositions but of being aware of what one's presuppositions are and of the obligation to listen to and interact with those who have different ones.

The humane position, and the biblical position, is that individuals are under no obligation to affirm as true something they have not adequately examined. Moreover, if after careful examination, a claim is falsified by the evidence, it should be rejected.

They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return. And they were relieved when they got back, with a sense of having fulfilled an obligation.

To be part of God's redemptive rescue is not only a high calling but a moral obligation.