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Duty Quotes by John Owen
- The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds…
- It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the…
- He, then, that would mortify any disquieting lust: let him take care to be equally diligent in all parts of obedience, and know that every…
- Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can…
- Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide…
- The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word
- The duties God requires of us are not in proportion to the strength we possess in ourselves. Rather, they are proportional to the resources available…
More Duty Quotes
- In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
- A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely,… — Charles Babbage
- Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss… — Charles Babbage
- We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
- Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in… — John Banville
- We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great… — Roy Barnes
- We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. — Dave Barry
- An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. — Jacques Barzun
- The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty… — Samuel Adams
- Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a… — Gary Bauer
- Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a… — Simone de Beauvoir