Quotes about Reluctance
Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe that life is to be loved, it is a gift.
— Madeleine L'Engle
So he was unwilling to move the ark of the LORD to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
— 2 Samuel 6:10
For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.
— John 7:5
For this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says:
— John 12:39
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
— Martin Luther
I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?
— Shane Claiborne
But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
— Exodus 4:13
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
— Martin Luther
But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”
— Exodus 6:12
Yet no one would speak publicly about Him for fear of the Jews.
— John 7:13
Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.
— Rick Warren
I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping.
— William Faulkner