Quotes about Consent
I would never hurt you," she said. "I can keep you safe, but to do so, I need your permission. Let me protect you.
— Ted Dekker
Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.
— Frederick Buechner
Our Lord was born not just of her flesh but also by her consent.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
— Alexander Hamilton
A forced marriage is no marriage.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
God does not control our minds without our consent; but if we desire to know and to do His will, His promises are ours: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
— Ellen White
It is through the mighty agency of the Holy Spirit that the government of Satan is to be subdued and subjected. It is the Holy Spirit that convinces of sin and expels it from the soul by the consent of the human agent....
— Ellen White
If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
— E Stanley Jones
Thou knowest how long and loyally I served the king in his worldly affairs. For that cause, it pleased him to promote me to the office which now I hold. When I consented, it was for the sake of the king alone. When I was elected, I was formally acquitted of my responsibilities for all that I had done as a chancellor.
— Thomas Becket
Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Even Christians taking in the teaching of the Bible can be deceived about our own sins. We somehow feel that consent to the teaching of scripture is equivalent to obedience.
— Jerry Bridges
The gospel will not ever tell us we are innocent, but it will tell us that we are loved; and in asking us to receive and consent to that love, or asks us to identify with, and make our own, love's comprehensive vision of all we are and have been.
— Rowan Williams