Quotes about Compulsion

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

We pray because we can't help it.

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

The basis of all ministry is the experience of God's unlimited and unlimiting acceptance of us as beloved children, an acceptance so full, so total, and all-embracing, that it sets us free from our compulsion to be seen, praised, and admired and frees us for Christ, who leads us on the road of service.

By contrast, if God works in us, the will is changed, and being gently breathed upon by the Spirit of God, it again wills and acts from pure willingness and inclination and of its own accord, not from compulsion

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

Necessity knows no law.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.

But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness will not be out of compulsion, but by your own free will.

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt: "The Fates lead him who will; him who won't, they drag.