Spiritual Obligation Quotes

God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important.

I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can.

Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.

There’s always a choice. That’s God’s way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There’s no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.

The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others.

Poverty was nowhere more endurable than in a country where duty towards one's neighbor, that is, one's fellow-citizen, was practiced with the utmost piety, as a means of gaining the favor of God the King.

Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbour; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us.

There are times when self defense is a religious duty.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

The Bible says that love is a responsibility. We are commanded to love. God doesn't ask us if we feel like it, He tells us in His Word that it is our responsibility to love.

The time has now come for every Latter-day Saint ... to do the will of the Lord and to pay his tithing in full. That is the word of the Lord to you.

A Christian is not his own master, since all his time belongs to God.

If I wouldn't offend my religion or God, why would I want to offend an audience because in effect those people are being watched over by the same person.

God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.