Quotes about Insistence

But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

“You are out of your mind,” they told her. But when she kept insisting it was so, they said, “It must be his angel.”

The challenge to Jacob-Israel is to turn to Yahweh and be willing to submit to his intention regarding the fulfillment of his purpose, rather than continuing to insist on working with its own ideas about how that should work out (Is 55:6-13).

We insist, it seems, on living.

And to know how to demand - with all one's might - what one wants

You're too important for me to take no as an answer

When we would say, 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.

They want to be teachers of the law, although they don't understand what they are saying or what they are insisting on. 1 Timothy 1:7

It is this insistence of man upon meaning that makes him so difficult. Once he realizes that he is of no importance whatever in the vast scheme of the universe, that no possible significance can be attached to his activities, that it does not matter whether he lives or dies, he will become much more … tractable.

And when a politician abuses his office and uses his power for his own aggrandizement, Biblical people should rise up and protest with all of the insistence, courage, and eloquence of Nathan in the court of David.

A nation that has forgotten the quality of leadership it took to make a civilization great in the past is not likely to insist on greatness in its leaders today.

Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.