Quotes about Voluntary
Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith. Perhaps
- Napoleon Hill
A voluntary act to fill empty hours had become intensive labor streaked with the bad feelings that ride the skin like pollen when too much about one's neighbors is known.
- Toni Morrison
Involuntary organizations ought to be tolerant, but voluntary organizations, so far as the fundamental purpose of their existence is concerned, must be intolerant or else cease to exist.
- J. Gresham Machen
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
- Brian Tracy
Erasmus of Rotterdam, a sixteenth-century priest who was committed to reforming the church from within, said, "When faith came to be in writings rather than in hearts, contention grew hot and love grew cold. That which is forced cannot be sincere, and that which is not voluntary cannot please Christ.
- Shane Claiborne
Faith in Christ is voluntary. A person cannot be coerced, bribed, or tricked into trusting Jesus. God will not force His way into your life. The Holy Spirit will do everything possible to disturb you, draw you, love you—but finally it is your personal decision.
- Billy Graham
Christ did not die by accident. He died voluntarily in our place.
- Billy Graham
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love -- every man works his oar voluntarily!
- Francis de Sales
William Tyndale, and Miles Coverdale, both voluntary exiles from their country for their aversion to popish superstition and idolatry.
- John Foxe
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it
- Samuel Johnson
You can apply yourself voluntarily to reading and learning, but you cannot really apply yourself to thinking: thinking have to be kindled, as a fire is by a draught, and kept going by some kind of interest in its object, which may be an objective interest or merely a subjective one.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.
- Dorothy Day