Pastoral Resources

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.