Quotes about Demanding

decided years ago, as a teenager, that nobody has the liberty to control my rights because my rights are God-given and inherent. Some people are amazed at my outlook. A black preacher came up to me one time and said, "Man, you're a different kind of black man." I said, "No, I am in control of whose opinions are important." There is a significant difference between demanding one's rights from someone and displaying the rights one already possesses.

The point is this. Paul's letters are highly energetic. Filling translations of his works with stodgy, chewy words and phrases will give the reader indigestion. They may be 'accurate' in one sense, but they are inaccurate in another. Such challenges mean that translation remains exciting, demanding and never-ending.

When you forget mercy, you name yourself as righteous and deserving, and you live an entitled and demanding life.

Envy is self-focused; because it's self-focused, it's entitled; because it's entitled, it's demanding; because it's demanding, it tends to judge the goodness of God by whether he has delivered what you feel entitled to; and because it judges God on that basis, it leads you to question his goodness. Because you question God's goodness, you won't run to him for help. Envy is a spiritual disaster.

They blindfolded Him and kept demanding, “Prophesy! Who hit You?”

But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices for Jesus to be crucified. And their clamor prevailed.

since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

The mere mention of domestic service brings some people out in spots of outrage, but there is a crying need for relatively low-level employment. It's ridiculous that people at the top are killing themselves in demanding jobs and then coming home to mow their own lawns.

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!

It is being included in the eternal life of God that heals all wounds and allows us to stop demanding satisfaction. What really matters, of a personal nature, once it is clear that you are included? You have been chosen. God chooses you. This is the message of the kingdom.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.