“Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We think him more a savior who shoulders our responsibilities than him who shoulders our sins. If instead of making decisions we have but to obey and do our duty, we feel it as a sort of salvation.” IfsThinkingMenFeelsSinDecisionResponsibilityModernDutySalvationBurdenShouldersSaviorMaking DecisionsModern ManBurden Of Responsibility Author:Eric Hoffer
“Always moved by religious motives, the Church has condemned the various forms of Marxist Socialism; and she condemns them today, because it is her permanent right and duty to safeguard men from currents of thought and influence that jeopardize their eternal salvation.” MenWisdomTodayFormPoliticsChurchReligiousEconomyInfluenceDutyEternalMovedSalvationCurrentsVariousSocialismPermanentMotiveLiberalismMarxistJeopardize Author:Pope Pius XI
“What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.” MenWayLifeWarMomentsEnergyDifficultHistoryDoubtMilitaryDangerDutyDifficultyAngerAdversitySalvationCurrentsAidsPhasesUncertainHistoricBattlefieldsAscent Book:Report to Greco Source: Report to Greco
“When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.” MenShouldWellsLooksFormPrayerVirtueDutyPrayingMethodSalvationPerpetualOur PrayersPetitions Author:Jeremy Taylor
“I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation.” WorldLooksMeanChristianReligionPrayerWillingJudgingDutySalvationGladParishMethodistsTidings Book:The Journal of the Reverend John Wesley, Sometime Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford Source: The Journal of the Reverend John Wesley, Sometime Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford
“It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.” WorldBelieveOrderFightingPartyFireAchieveDutySalvationChosen Author:Wole Soyinka
“The prime duty of help to the poor by the Church is not to bring temporal relief to their needs, but salvation to their souls.” NeedsSoulHelpingChurchPoorDutySalvationReliefPrime Author:Marion G. Romney
“Zeal is the great desire to make God known, loved, and served, and thus to bring knowledge of salvation to others. Activity flows from this virtue. Teachers who possess it fulfill the duties of their profession with enthusiasm, love, courage, and perseverance.” DesireKnownVirtueTeacherDutyActivityFlowSalvationPerseveranceProfessionEnthusiasmGod KnowsZealCourage To LoveCourage And Perseverance Author:Basil Moreau
“It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.” FirstsMaySoulDoneDutySalvation Author:Samuel Johnson
“Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.” WorldNamesWaterThis WorldDutyPleaseGoodnessCourtSalvationOilBeing TrueCharmPilotsPreachingWoeGaleDishonorCastaway Book:Moby-Dick Source: Moby-Dick