Quotes about Force
My judgment is that as long as the pastors of the church are embarrassed by this urgent language to God and assume in our Enlightenment model that such rhetoric has no actual force, we will not get very far in the struggle for justice.
— Walter Brueggemann
All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
— James Freeman Clarke
The church (the ecclesia), when true to its real calling, when it is on about what God is on about, is by far and away the most potent force for transformational change the world has ever seen.
— Alan Hirsch
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
— Alexander Hamilton
Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry she carries them
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know that there is a force in the world and an energy that you can put out, and when you put out love it comes back to you. I think that's my basic philosophy.
— Jennifer Lopez
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is lightning that strikes, not thunder.
— Matshona Dhliwayo