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Jones... I just don't understand. "Yes, I know that you don't," Jones replied, "but it's an odd thing you've been unable to grasp... See I'm not requiring you to understand. I am simply urging you to obey. For it is only when you obey that, eventually, you begin to understand
- Andy Andrews
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
- William Hazlitt
and want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense. She
- Alice Hoffman
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
- Mark Twain
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
- E Stanley Jones
The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.
- Barbara Kingsolver
We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
- AW Tozer