Quotes about Compelled

They found themselves involved willy-nilly in a futile but urgent search for the truth.

I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will descend upon me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the LORD.’ So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.”

And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.

But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, even though I have no charge to bring against my nation.

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

So nothing can be ours by right, by nature, or by necessity. But one thing is mine by my free choice: the self I give away in love. This is the thing even God cannot do for me. It really is my choice. God can love, but He cannot compel my free love. If it is compelled, it is not free. If it is free, it is not compelled.

I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre.

Love is never compelled, except in hell. There, love has to submit to justice.

You are not compelled to form any opinion about this matter before you, nor to disturb your peace of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you.

Life, life, you sang with every cell, compelled into dancing as the spell held you enchained and you burned air.

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.