Quotes about Reluctance
Doubt and fear of the future are behind the reluctance of many to wholeheartedly accept and follow God's invitation to join Him.
- Richard Blackaby
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
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
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
- Martin Luther
Why should the sons and daughters of God be reluctant to pray, when prayer is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven's storehouse, where are treasured the boundless resources of Omnipotence.
- Ellen White
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.
- Phillips Brooks
The last thing I wanted to do was act, because it was the path of least resistance.
- Wyatt Russell
Some of us are so stubborn we won't trust God until we have no other choice at all.
- Joyce Meyer
Such utterance staggers and offends among the listeners. But it also opens vistas of possibility where we had not thought to go and where in fact, we are most reluctant to go.
- Walter Brueggemann
Two movements in human life are important: (a) deep reluctance to let loose of a world that has passed away, and (b) capacity to embrace a new world being given.
- Walter Brueggemann
As we go to the places where we are called by God—sometimes gladly, sometimes reluctantly, always in anxiety—we are drawn into the newness of God's future.
- Walter Brueggemann