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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.

Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.