Quotes about Force
Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Your physical self is inspired by a divine force that beats its heart, digests its food and grows its fingernails, and this same force is receptive to endlessly abundant health.
- Wayne Dyer
This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow of a running stream to represent the divine force.
- Wayne Dyer
Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.
- Albert Einstein
Persuasion is better than force.
- Aesop
Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.
- Jimmy Carter
Dream not thou that force is power; Nor, if thou hast a thought, and that thought sour And sick, oh, dream not thought is wisdom!
- Euripides
The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.
- Girolamo Savonarola
To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.
- Mark Vonnegut
You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
- CS Lewis