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Quotes About Compel

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
~ Norman L. Geisler
It sounds like you sort of made that woman buy you the bear—" "Celeste." "Celeste, whether she wanted to or not. Do you see what I'm saying?
~ James Patterson
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
~ Charles Stanley
Do come now, said he..., pray come, you must come, I declare you shall come.
~ Jane Austen
And now the power of Christ is gonna compel you...to choke on my motherfucking dick.
~ Tim Seeley
Elämän laki on niin yksinkertainen: jos ei suosiolla, niin pakolla.
~ Jarkko Laine
If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I think love is, by far, the strongest force in the entire universe. Love is so strong, it'll make you do something that, in any other circumstance, you would never do.
~ Kyle
Clearly, when it comes to love, there is no reasoning it out, you just have to do as your heart compels you,
~ Unknown
Your soul rages. You cannot control your spirits within your body, so you need this to force others to your will." The king stepped boldly toward Meklos, holding the dragonstaff in front of him, the Eye shining even in the dim light of the temple chamber. "You need this---this crutch to compel the great spirits, and they rebel against you, Meklos! They are fighting you and calling the gods' displeasure against you. Your life is diminished by the length of this rod!
~ Unknown
General belief is "There is no real magic, only tricks" but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic".
~ Amit Kalantri
And strange it is That nature must compel us to lament Our most persisted deeds.
~ William Shakespeare
But Governments and peoples do not always take rational decisions. Sometimes they take mad decisions, or one set of people get control who compel all others to obey and aid them in folly.
~ Winston S. Churchill
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
~ Victor Hugo
Sometimes the world around you makes you do things you would never do out of the circumstances.
~ Haidji
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.)
~ Peter Kreeft
Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?
~ Zora Neale Hurston
The authorities don't grant concessions out of the kindness of their hearts; they simply concede the reality of what their subjects are strong enough to compel from them. If you want political leverage, don't beg for it, don't seek it through their channels - take power outside them.
~ CrimethInc.
I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before.
~ Tom Chatfield
God does not "compel" a person to faith in the sense of forcing him to believe what he consciously refuses to accept, but God "compels" a change in the person's will by regeneration so that his assent to the gospel is indeed voluntary.
~ Unknown
Without God's power to "compel" or to change the will, no one would decide to accept the gospel of Jesus Christ.
~ Unknown
Ah, merciless Love, is there any length to which you cannot force the human heart to go?
~ Virgil
Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep
~ W.H. Auden