Love Compels Quotes

#1. God's love compels us beyond bitter heartaches that we might show genuine compassion. - Kathleen Kohler -

Gary Chapman

#2. Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love.

T. S. Eliot

#3. Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and so effectively that they shine resplendent in the eyes of all beholders.

Marcel Proust

#4. What is hope? Like love, it is hard to define, but easy to recognize, a state of being that compels us to go on. It is a feeling that we have what we need to continue our journey to the next moment.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#5. Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatures that compels us to act on their behalf.

Laurence Overmire

#6. Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#7. The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.

David Platt

#8. Only the brave should teach ... Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.

Pearl S. Buck

#9. [About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole ... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.

I.L. Peretz

#10. Then you'll need to teach him again, until he's learned. Just as I've done with you boys. That's what God does with us, after all. Puts us out into the world where the only real boundary is that of His love. His love either compels us, or restrains us. There is nothing stronger, Danny.

Tamera Alexander

#11. The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

Joshua Reynolds

#12. Isn't it amazing?" I asked. "How the ocean bows to the moon."
"Some people believe that it is the lure of the moon that compels the ocean's waves to swell. I believe that it's the ocean's dance that entices the moon's rays to shine upon it,

Nicole Gulla

#13. St. Paul says that "the love of Christ compels us," but this "compels us" can also be translated as "possesses us." And so it is: love attracts us and sends us; it draws us in and gives us to others.

Pope Francis

#14. Sometimes it is just about taking the first step, only then can greatness find us.

Colleen Mariotti

#15. In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

Rex Brandt

#16. Just build things and find out if they work.

Ben Silbermann

#17. Love for him compels us to live for him.

Bryan Chapell

#18. Schedule in rest in any pursuit. There's always another peak, but look back and admire the view for a moment. You have to actually practice that - it's a balance.

Christy Haubegger

#19. They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it; that encourages, this compels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.

Francis Quarles

#20. Some people will not understand what the love of Christ compels you to do; do it anyway.

Sheila Walsh

#21. Anyone who thinks I'm a plastic-surgery freak is insane.

Jennifer Grey

#22. During the socialist period, the government became too big. That created a crowding-out effect in the private economy, and it gave everybody the need to pay more taxes in order to finance this big government. We are against big government. We want a smaller and more efficient government.

Antonis Samaras

#23. What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape.

Fennel Hudson

#24. Help yourself before you help others.

Jayson Engay

#25. One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

Hunter S. Thompson

#26. Too many times people portray God as the ultimate judge, waiting to sentence us for our sins. The truth is, he is a loving husband who compels us with his love and not fear.

Jefferson Bethke

#27. Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

Dan Buettner