Compels Quotes

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.