Quotes about Compel

“So my anxious thoughts compel me to answer, because of the turmoil within me.

So the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.

When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.

But we can influence (not compel) each other's choices through the mediating channels of imagination and emotion. So can angels. They can't put judgments in your mind or choices in your will, but they can put images in your imagination and feelings in your heart. (Feelings don't compel you either; your will can choose whether to follow your feelings or not.)

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

He was the first to see that Christ's ministers must do the work of fishermen. They must not wait for souls to come to them, but must go after souls, and "compel them to come in.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

God has provided enough evidence in this life to convince anyone willing to believe, yet he has also left some ambiguity so as not to compel the unwilling

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.