Quotes about Force
A tectonic plate's got to do what a tectonic plate's got to do.
- NT Wright
A tectonic plate's got to do what a tectonic plate's got to do.
- NT Wright
The reason we commit "sins" is because, to some extent at least, we are failing to worship the one true God and are worshipping instead some feature or force within the created order. When we do that, we are abdicating our responsibilities, handing to the "powers" in question the genuine human authority that ought to be ours.
- NT Wright
There is no condemnation for those in the Messiah . . . because God . . . condemned Sin right there in the flesh." The punishment has been meted out. But the punishment is on Sin itself, the combined, accumulated, and personified force that has wreaked such havoc in the world and in human lives.
- NT Wright
Randall concludes, "When science seemed to take God out of the universe, men had to deify some natural force, like 'evolution.
- Nancy Pearcey
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
- Nelson Rockefeller
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Once you get on the joy and gratitude frequency, you come to see that the universe is not only a co-creative force, but it's your strongest ally.
- Pam Grout
Protestant church tradition developed over several centuries when Christians were not yet forced, by virtue of the culminating evidence, to see the Bible in its ancient context.
- Peter Enns
“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
- Genesis 31:31
And if any man said to him, “The fat must be burned first; then you may take whatever you want,” the servant would reply, “No, you must give it to me right now. If you refuse, I will take it by force!”
- 1 Samuel 2:16
Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel.
- 1 Kings 5:13