Quotes about Obligation

Once we've concluded that this earthly life of ours is a gift of divine mercy—and grateful recollection of this is our obligation—then we rightly stoop to consider this life's miserable condition. And by such consideration we disentangle ourselves from excessive desire for this life, which— as has been said—is our natural inclination.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.

Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.

If God had a wife, He would be in trouble too if He dodged His chores.