The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is much safer to obey than to rule.
Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.
A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
To do my duty, I must obey God.