Quotes about Urge
Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything — everything.
— Maya Angelou
A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.
— Etty Hillesum
We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
— AW Tozer
My call to the ministry was not a miraculous or supernatural something. On the contrary it was an inner urge calling me to serve humanity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We cannot have justification urged upon us too often or too much. Even if we learn it and understand it well, none of us grasps it perfectly or believes it with his whole heart. Our flesh is so frail and is often disobedient to the Spirit.
— Martin Luther
To purge means to clear or get rid of an unwanted feeling, memory or condition, or to physically remove something completely. Let's develop the urge to purge and remove anything that could be dragging you backward so you can be free to move forward.
— Terri Savelle Foy
1. I DO SOLEMNLY RESOLVE to embrace my current season of life and will maximize my time in it. I will resist the urge to hurry through or circumvent any portion of my journey but will live with a spirit of contentment.
— Priscilla Shirer
concupiscence
— Thomas Merton
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
— E Stanley Jones
The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.
— Gordon Hinckley
Jones... I just don't understand. "Yes, I know that you don't," Jones replied, "but it's an odd thing you've been unable to grasp... See I'm not requiring you to understand. I am simply urging you to obey. For it is only when you obey that, eventually, you begin to understand
— Andy Andrews