Immanuel Kant Quotes

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.

The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.

Whenever you serve others in any way, you are actually serving God.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be useful no longer than while we are well.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

Any Christian constitutionalist who retreats from this battle jeopardizes his life here and hereafter. Seldom has so much responsibility hung on so few, so heavily; but our numbers are increasing, and we who have been warned have a responsibility to warn our neighbor.

We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.

As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.

The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.

Don't let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That's a price that's too high to pay.