Duty Quotes

• "In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message."
  By: Bishop Joseph Butler
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• "The moment you can make a very simple discovery, viz., that obligation to God is your privilege, and is not imposed as a burden, your experience will teach you many things--that duty is liberty, that repentance is a release from sorrow, that sacrifice is gain, that humility is dignity, that the truth from which you hide is a healing element that bathes your disordered life, and that even the penalties and terrors of God are the artillery only of protection to His realm."
  By: Horace Bushnell
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• "Take your duty, and be strong in it, as God will make you strong. The harder it is, the stronger in fact you will be. Understand, also, that the great question here is, not what you will get, but what you will become. The greatest wealth you can ever get will be in yourself. Take your burdens and troubles and losses and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunity, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these."
  By: Horace Bushnell
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• "In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law."
  By: Horace Bushnell
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• "Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it."
  By: Horace Bushnell
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• "Feeble are we? Yes, without God we are nothing. But what, by faith, every man may be, God requires him to be. This is the only Christian idea of duty. Measure obligation by inherent ability! No, my brethren, Christian obligation has a very different measure. It is measured by the power that God will give us, measured by the gifts and possible increments of faith. And what a reckoning will it be for many of us, when Christ summons us to answer before Him under the law, not for what we are, but for what we might have been."
  By: Horace Bushnell
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• "Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty."
  By: Edmund Burke
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• "I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer."
  By: Robert Boyle
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• "Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence."
  By: Mathilde Blind (f/k/a Mathilde Cohen)
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• "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man."
  By: Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch. XII, v. 13)
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• "It is not the profession of religion which creates the obligation for the performance of duty; for that existed before any such profession was made. The profession of religion only recognizes the obligation."
  By: Albert Barnes
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• "No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion."
  By: Honore de Balzac
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• "Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged."
  By: Hosea Ballou
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• "None should expect to prosper who go out of way of duty."
  By: James H. Aughey
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• "It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any other path of safety except that of duty."
  By: James H. Aughey
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• "Do daily and hourly your duty; do it patiently and thoroughly. Do it as it presents itself; do it at the moment, and let it be its own reward. Never mind whether it is known and acknowledged or not, but do not fail to do it."
  By: James H. Aughey
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