Quotes about Obligation

It is impossible to bring the Almighty under obligations to the creature; God gains nothing from us.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

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

When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.

Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness. How inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable was the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.

Let us bind love with duty; for duty is the love of law; and law is the nature of the Eternal.' So we bound ourselves.

My business is to take care of life, and to do the best I can think of for it. Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.