Self-preservation—this is your new focus. The only obligation of today is to preserve the breath of tomorrow. Then, once footing is regained, you can begin to fulfill debt obligations. Debt is hindsight.
I would say you have an ethical obligation to pay the taxes that you owe, but you don't have an ethical obligation to pay taxes that you don't owe. In fact, you should be seeking ways to legally minimise your taxes.
You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obliga...
William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.
We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we own in common with each other, and that we are obliged to protect for our posterity. The water. The trees. T...
Sometimes it seems safer to have just enough God to get to heaven, but not so much that he radically alters our lives.
I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I'm happy, I make great music. When I'm unhappy and my heart is broken, ...
In my relationship with God, I've learned that if I follow a 'formula' for how I spend my time with Him, then I'm just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need...
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.
Paul was focusing on what was happening him, not him. Likewise, we can be sure that when something is happening to us, God is doing something in us--something that will shape us for eternity.
We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.
We can't have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and so on.
The Stranger: I'd love to oblige you. But a man's got to get his rest sometime. Sarah Belding: Oblige me? The Stranger: But I tell you what, if you'd come back in about half hour, I'll see what I can do, all right?
I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Because of our selfishness and inclination toward personal comfort and convenience, we'd rather not have to deal with constant change and uncertainty. We have difficulty reconciling the goodness of God with the mystery of his ways.
There seems to be something in our human nature that draws us away from a life-giving relationship with Jesus because it feels more comfortable to focus on what to do and not do. That tendency robs us of real joy and peace.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
God primes the pump of obligation.
The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation.
