Quotes about Constrained

Once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vise, constrained by the love of God.

And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes, and you will be bound so that you cannot go out among the people.

And still I am quite cramped with it all!

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

Grace is free because God would not be the infinite, self-sufficient God He is if he were constrained by anything outside Himself.

If I understand accountability, but not acceptability, I will live under pressure to behave well in order to be accepted. If I understand acceptability, but not accountability, I may become casually indifferent to sinful living. When I understand first my acceptability and then my accountability, I will be constrained to please the One who died for me, fearful that I might grieve Him, not wanting to, because I love Him.

I say therefore that he sins against the Holy Spirit who, while so constrained by the power of divine truth that he cannot plead ignorance, yet deliberately resists, and that merely for the sake of resisting.