May those who enjoy the faithful ministry of the Word feel exceedingly thankful for it. There are few blessings on Earth greater for a believer; and yet the Lord is frequently obliged to teach us the value of this blessing by depriving us of it for a season.
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.
On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.
The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage.
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.
Google will be obliged either to accept Chinese regulations or exit the world's largest Internet market, with serious consequences for its long-term global ambitions. This is a metaphor for our times: America's most dynamic company cannot take on the Chinese government - even on an issue like free and open information - and win.
I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.
Once this old lady saw me in airport and just kept smiling at me, and after much hesitation, she came and asked me, 'Are you Ram? Can I touch your hair? Is it real?' and I happily obliged.
One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.
It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
Those who claim we buy oil from Daesh are obliged to prove it. If not, you are slanderer.
When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.
I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.
He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
