Quotes about Obligation

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing.

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the hour of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

Sex understood in the modern way is Eros-love severed from responsibility; it is desire without obligation. Because it is lawless desire, it is therefore Godless desire. That is why eroticism and atheism always go together.

The fewer sacrifices a man is required to make, the more loath he will be to make those few.

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

Our position in life should never determine our posture in service.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

By virtue of being created by God, the world knows how to live and is under obligation to live that way, but it has declined. It has thus "profaned" the earth, made it something God no longer wishes to have anything to do with, something God could not continue to have anything to do with without compromising who he is.

Parenthood is an unspeakably solemn matter.

Is God obliged to force His gift on those who value it not?