Quotes about Demand
Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.
- Audre Lorde
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.
- Dorothy Sayers
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of sh.. that it demanded.
- Ernest Hemingway
And the Son is ordered to demand this authority so that He might actually show reverence toward the Father and His inexpressible humility.
- Martin Luther
Therefore the Law finds man not only unwilling but also unable to do what the Law demands. Thus he says here in the text that on the day of the assembly the people refused and could not hear the voice of the Law, and that therefore they asked for another teacher, one who would speak to them a word they could bear.
- Martin Luther
Thus the fleshly use of sex is forbidden, because it is a disorderly lust. Where, however, sex is associated with you by marriage, then the flesh should be used, and you render to the divine Law, that is, to love what is demanded.
- Martin Luther
For any work not directed toward the purpose of either disciplining the body or serving the neighbor (as long as the neighbor demands nothing against God) is neither good nor Christian.
- Martin Luther
That the world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully.
- Olga Tokarczuk
He demands absolute righteousness from His servants, because He has put into them the very nature of God.
- Oswald Chambers
Is the Son of God praying in me, bringing honor to the Father, or am I dictating my demands to Him?
- Oswald Chambers
Ask, in Aramaic, means a combination of "claim" (as in, that deed to the land is yours) and "demand." To ask for something in prayer is to simply lay hold of what's yours. You have the right, and even the responsibility to command your life.
- Pam Grout