Quotes about Compulsion
By contrast, if God works in us, the will is changed, and being gently breathed upon by the Spirit of God, it again wills and acts from pure willingness and inclination and of its own accord, not from compulsion
- Martin Luther
Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.
- 2 Corinthians 9:7
But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness will not be out of compulsion, but by your own free will.
- Philemon 1:14
Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but because it is God’s will; not out of greed, but out of eagerness;
- 1 Peter 5:2
Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone or something which, once we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else. This can be considered either a state of holiness or of madness.
- Paulo Coelho
It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.
- Aristotle
The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.
- Albert Ellis
We pray because we can't help it.
- Philip Yancey
I do "good works" for my wife not in order to earn credit but to express my love for her. Likewise, God wants me to serve "in the new way of the Spirit": not out of compulsion but out of desire.
- Philip Yancey
The very fact of our becoming aware of this profound ordering of things will enable human collectivization to pass beyond the enforced phase, where it now is, into the free phase: that in which (men having at last understood that they are inseparably joined elements of a converging Whole, and having learnt in consequence to love the preordained forces that unite them) a natural union of affinity and sympathy will supersede the forces of compulsion.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Sin has a horrible appetite. It calls for more and more sin to be set in motion.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Two words that characterize misplaced worship or lust are secret excess.
- Lysa TerKeurst