Quotes about Demanding
Get out of my chair, dillhole!
— AA Milne
The major heresy of the Western churches is that they have largely turned around the very meaning of faith—not knowing and not needing to know—into its exact opposite: demanding to know and insisting that we do know!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Self-absorbed people experience a lot of disappointment and anger, and they often have a hair trigger when it comes to accusing God or anyone else who doesn't meet their demands. We often hear them say, "That's not fair!
— Zig Ziglar
Until I got older, I never dreamed of what a demanding responsibility it is to keep food in the pantry, to keep clothing neat and presentable, to buy all that is needed to keep a home running.
— Gordon Hinckley
But Sabbath is not only resistance. It is alternative. It is an alternative to the demanding, chattering, pervasive presence of advertising and its great liturgical claim of professional sports that devour all our "rest time.
— Walter Brueggemann
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.
— Alan Hirsch
Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!
— Pope John Paul II