Dutiful Quotes

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The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive… — Joseph Butler
I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager. — Emily Watson
To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way… — Paramahansa Yogananda
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess… — Josephine Hart
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has… — Joseph Weizenbaum
The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as… — Joseph Campbell
Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife. — Chanakya
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful… — Wilhelm Frick
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and… — Queen Elizabeth II
The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life:… — Thomas Jefferson
The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect… — Ellen Goodman
It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure)… — Criss Jami
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling… — John Strachan
The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual… — John Eldredge
A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject… — Martin Luther
A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her. — Jodi Picoult
In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholicâ€”until the day I learned that animals have no souls. — Susan Kay
And she hates being managed - that is not the word I want. What is it, Maturin?' 'Manipulated.' 'Exactly. She is a dutiful girl -… — Patrick O'Brian

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