Compel Love Quotes

#1. Humor is the only free emotion. I mean, you can compel fear, as we know. You can compel love, actually ... But you can't compel laughter. It happens when two things come together and make a third unexpectedly.

Gloria Steinem

#2. Belief is like love: it cannot be compelled; and as any attempt to compel love produces hate, so it is the attempt to compel belief which first produces real unbelief.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. You cannot compel love," he said finally, "nor summon it at will. Still less," he added ruefully, "can you dismiss it.

Diana Gabaldon

#4. God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#5. Like love we don't know where or why Like love we cant compel or fly Like Love we often weep Like Love we seldom keep

W. H. Auden

#6. Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.

Barry Watson

#7. It's in your eyes. I've done what I thought was impossible. I made you love me, but not in the way I needed. You love me as your friend.

Brodi Ashton

#8. For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we might see love and love again, saith St John in his first epistle.

William Tyndale

#9. Jesus did not use hell to try and compel "heathens" and "pagans" to believe in God, so they wouldn't burn when they die. He talked about hell to very religious people to warn them about the consequences of straying from their God-given calling and identity to show the world God's love.

Rob Bell

#10. Your pain was always a part of a plan to open your heart to love.

Bryant McGill

#11. You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.

Gloria Steinem

#12. But that was Rishi... he was like a pop song you thought you couldn't stand, but found yourself humming in the shower anyway.

Sandhya Menon

#13. When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when I'm silent. These curious creaks, mutters, and hums compel my imagination.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.

Nina George

#15. True love for our nation will compel us to shout on the streets and get on our knees and ask people to repent

Sunday Adelaja

#16. You cannot compel someone to love. Love is like the wind. It comes when it does, it stops when it does, it changes direction when it does. Who are you and I to criticize the wind?

Frederick Lenz

#17. Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

Rod McKuen

#18. To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

George Santayana

#19. The knowledge that God has loved me beyond all limits will compel me to go into the world to love others in the same way.

Oswald Chambers

#20. You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.

Carl Jung

#21. Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#22. Doth not a flight through illimitable plains of the ether of love inflame thy heart and compel thee to delight thyself in the Lord thy God?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#23. The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.

Leo Tolstoy

#24. Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

Daniel Barenboim

#25. Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.

Mickey Rooney

#26. AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness ... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

Saint Augustine