Duty To God Quotes:

How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

- Teresa of Avila

topic: Strong, Prayer, Pillars, Duty To God

It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.

- George Washington

topic: Thanksgiving, Bible, God, Proclamation, Thanksgiving Day

"Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

- Douglas MacArthur

topic: Country, War, Honor, Duty And Honor, Duty To God

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

- Douglas MacArthur

source: 1951 Address to Congress after being relieved of his duty by President Truman, 19 Apr.

topic: Goodbye, Military, Light, Never Fade, Old Soldiers

Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can.

- Wallace D. Wattles

source: Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.66, e-artnow

topic: Personality, World, Way, Duty To God

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

- Douglas MacArthur

source: Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

topic: Country, Honor, Three, Duty And Honor, Duty To God

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.

- Noah Webster

topic: Exercise, Men, Voting, Right To Vote, Discharge

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

- George Washington

topic: Bible, God, Religious, Proclamation, Duty To God

Because it’s our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.19, Penguin

topic: Night, Evil, Rose, Sydney Sage, Duty To God

A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

- Mark Twain

topic: Christian, Country, Would Be, Duty To God, Elections And Voting

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

- Horace Bushnell

topic: Love, Excellence, Religion, Duty To God, Great Bond

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Life, Happiness, Future, Duty To God

If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

topic: Christian, Voting, Tickets, Duty To God, Candidates

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.

- John Locke

topic: Wisdom, Gun, Men, Inalienable Rights, Duty To God

Children, we may go to the temple, reverently circumambulate the sanctum sanctorum and put our offering in the charity box, but on our way out if we kick the beggar at the door, where is our devotion? Compassion towards the poor is our duty to God. Mother is not saying that we should give money to every beggar that sits in front of a temple, but do not despise them. Pray for them as well. When we hate others, it is our own mind that becomes impure. Equality of vision is God.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

topic: Mother, Spiritual, Children, Duty To God

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Thinking, Animal, Self, Demented, Placid

The Church must take right ground in regard to politics... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God... God will bless or curse this nation, according to the course Christians take in politics.

- Charles Grandison Finney

topic: Christian, Country, Religious, Duty To God

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

- Wilbur Smith

topic: Kings, Boys, Men, Duty To God

And just think, fellow Southrons, what kind of a Confederate nation we could have, if after independence, politicians abandoned equivocation and spoke honestly and firmly on all issues? If they were to do their duty to God, nation, and people, there would be virtually no need for any form of federal litigation.

- Charley Reese

topic: War, Thinking, Issues, Confederate, Duty To God

In marriage we have a duty to God, our spuses, the world, and future generations. But we are sinners. A husband and wife need to acknowledge that when the Bible speaks of fools, it is not just speaking about other people, but about them as well. Even the wisest among us has moments of folly. So God gives us spouses to serve as wise friends by praying with and for us, attending church with us, speaking truth, and providing Scripture along with good books and online classes, lectures, and sermons to nourish fruitfulness in our lives.

- Mark Driscoll

topic: Wise, Husband, Book, Duty To God, Fruitfulness

[Islam] is the dynamic conviction that a person's spiritual and worldly responsibilities are one and the same, that an individuals duty to the community is indistinguishable from his or her duty to God.

- Reza Aslan

topic: Spiritual, Responsibility, Community, Duty To God

The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.

- Robert Aris Willmott

topic: Spiritual, Believe, Book, Boyish, Duty To God

Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject connected with her duty to God and her neighbor; was very truthful both in word and deed, very strict in her observance of the Sabbath-though the rest of the family were by no means particular in that respect-very diligent in her studies; respectful to superiors, and kind to inferiors and equals; and she was gentle, sweet-tempered, patient, and forgiving to a remarkable degree.

- Martha Finley

source: "Elsie Dinsmore".

topic: Sweet, Children, Mean, Diligent, Duty To God

To their duty to God, youth should realize their duty to our country. They should love and honor the Constitution of the United States, the basic concepts and principles upon which this nation has been established. Yes, they need to develop a love for our free institutions.

- Ezra Taft Benson

source: Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

topic: Country, Voting, Honor, Love And Honor, Duty To God

And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execu tion, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensible duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM.

- Samuel Adams

topic: Country, Mean, Law, Duty To God