“Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.” ThinkingShouldFirstsCountryLightSeemsChristianityVirtueDutySourceMoralityGoodnessJokesMirrorsFilledGuiltBusyGlimpseToo Busy Book:A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
“Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.” StatesGovernmentMightFormNamesMoneyPowerEffectsDutySourceInstrumentsMereOfficersTreasury Author:Andrew Jackson
“The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is my duty to enforce such laws.To prevent smuggling, the Coast Card should be greatly strengthened, and a supply of swift power boats should be provided. The major sources of production should be rigidly regulated, and every effort should be made to suppress interstate traffic... It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation.” ShouldMadeLawPresidentEffortKnownDutySourceCitizensMajorsConstitutionCongressProductionsCardsBoatAmendmentsTrafficCoastAdequateViolationProhibitionInterstateSmugglingCongress And The President Author:Calvin Coolidge
“Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify ourselves and to discharge the duties of our employment.” PrayerVirtueGraceDutySourceNeededFoundationEsteemEmploymentDischargeSanctify Author:Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
“The true source of rights is duty.” RightsDutySource Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi
“What do you do when other countries' intelligence agencies give you information and you aren't entirely certain about its source? Simply ignore it? That's impossible. We have a duty to guarantee the safety of our citizens.” GivingCountryCertainImpossibleInformationDutySourceCitizensSafetyAgencyGuaranteesOther CountriesIntelligence Agencies Author:Angela Merkel
“Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty to me; you men always have some high-sounding excuse for indulging yourselves. You go gallivanting over the earth, climbing mountains, looking for the sources of the Nile; and expect women to sit dully at home embroidering. I embroider very badly. I think I would excavate rather well.” ThinkingMenWellsIdeasHomeEarthEnjoyPleasureDutySourceMountainExcuseThis LifeClimbingPeculiarClimbing MountainNile Author:Barbara Mertz