Randy Cohen Quotes

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

The Church emphasis responsibility more than rights.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', 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.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.

No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father.

Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.

There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it - it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it - you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.

An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.

What we think of Christ influences our thinking and controls our actions.

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

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

With great power comes great responsibilty.

When you are in the line of your duty, it is like standing in front of a line of posts, and every post is in line. But step one step aside, and every post looks as though it were not quite in line. The farther you get away from that straight line, the more crooked the posts will appear. It is the straight and narrow path of duty that will lead you and me back to the presence of God.

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.