Best duty & command Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands; rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer; yes, even go without love.”

Giving Path Duty Demand Command Submit Homeless Without Love Wanderers

Book:Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

Source: Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

“When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.”

Source: History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards

“My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.”

Lord Mankind Duty Command

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.”

Heaven Voice Duty Command Voice Of God Eldest

Book:Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)

Source: Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)

“The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will do so; otherwise it is enough for him that God commands, and enough for them that he cannot disobey.”

World Enough Christian Desire Objects Duty Please Command Consistently

Book:Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

“At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.”

Humans Heart Moments Seems Sides Moral Duty Comfort Command Narrative Human Life Significance Yield Cosmic Bargains Inconvenient

Author:Gary Hamel

“Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.”

Life Giving Order Leadership Position Duty Command Live Your Life Humiliation Humiliated

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can assign them their duty. The Republic of Letters is more ancient than monarchy, and of far higher character in the world than the vassal court of Britain.”

World Character Mankind Duty Higher Concern Letters Universal Court Ancient Command Obedience Britain Empires Republic Monarchy Prerogative

Book:The American Crisis

Source: The American Crisis

“Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.”

Firsts Duty Morality Contrary Superiors Command Obedience

Book:A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction

Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction

“Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.”

“Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.”

Giving Divine Duty Conscience Infinite Delight Conviction Creator Command Sanctions Rectitude

Book:The Works of William E. Channing

Source: The Works of William E. Channing

“The Bible must be the invention of either good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. It could not be the invention of good men or angels, for they neither would or could make a book, and tell lies all the time they were writing it, saying, 'Thus saith the Lord,' when it was their own invention. It could not be the invention of bad men or devils, for they would not make a book which commands all duty, forbids all sin, and condemns their souls to hell for all eternity. Therefore, I draw this conclusion, that the Bible must be given by divine inspiration.”

Source: The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc

“We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.”