Quotes about Forced
So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
- Exodus 1:11
He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
- Job 20:15
Along the way they found a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross of Jesus.
- Matthew 27:32
Now Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and the soldiers forced him to carry the cross of Jesus.
- Mark 15:21
What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will.
- Peter Kreeft
If God is love and humans are free, then there must be a hell. Not only would it be a contradiction for God to force people to love him, but it would also be hell for them to be forced to love the One they hate.
- Norman Geisler
Since God by His very nature (love) cannot force anyone to love Him, it would be highly improper to think of a heaven where people were forced to be there.
- Norman Geisler
Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is the unguessed axis along which they must be strung.
- Cormac McCarthy
On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on a Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, we had the terrorist attack in the United States.
- Isabel Allende
In the United States, there are 1,600 forced resignations of pastors every month. Many
- Neil Anderson
And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.
- DH Lawrence
From nuclear waste to Northern Rock and Metronet, risk is never transferred to the private sector - the state will always be forced to step in where there is a clear public interest.
- John McDonnell