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they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.
- Edith Wharton
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
- Edmund Burke
The violent take it by force" is how the King James Version puts it (Matt. 11:12). That is the way the kingdom of God advances. With persecution outside, Satan fighting us through temptations, and our own lusts within, every disciple of Christ is in a battle, one that demands spiritual strength and ongoing vigilance.
- Edward Welch
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
- Albert Camus
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it arises under a facets government or communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.
- Albert Einstein
I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.
- Albert Einstein
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
want to propose that we are both sent and drawn by the same Force, which is precisely what Christians mean when they say the Cosmic Christ is both alpha and omega. We are both driven and called forward by a kind of deep homesickness, it seems. There is an inherent and desirous dissatisfaction that both sends and draws us forward, and it comes from our original and radical union with God. What appears to be past and future is in fact the same home, the same call, and the same God
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The greatest force in the world today is the power of God as it works through man.
- Thomas Monson
When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force
- Leo Buscaglia
We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.
- Andrew Murray