It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.
Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.
The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known.
When we. . . devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.
The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
I just got my phone back yesterday. My mom had it for two days. I was supposed to read a book and I really wanted to play Call Of Duty.
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.
I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
Evangelists have absolutely no desire to physically or emotionally coerce anyone. In a sense, we are like doctors: we have a duty to tell you the truth, care for you, argue with you (if that is useful), but we can't compel you to do anything.
I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.
A tough fight against evil is the duty of good man.
I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.
True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.
Love is the only duty that we know.
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.