I might have had more difficulty in constraining myself to be silent under his words, if I had had less difficulty in impressing upon Peggotty (who was only angry on my account, good creature!
If they would serve their fellow-men, let them do it by making manifest the power and reality of conscience, in constraining them to penitential self-abasement!
His hand moving freely is curved round by some law of gravitation from within; that is, there is the most constraining unity in the most abundant variety.
At this point the law of development does not lose itself in caprice; rather it becomes more constraining and incisive.
But beyond there is the constraining unity of effect, the uneffaceable impression, of Hamlet or Macbeth.
The truth of God may be no truth to us; His love in the Saviour may exercise no constraining power--and what is the reason?
Under that constraining power, do old things pass away, and all things become new?
What solemn, mysterious sacredness investing the whole form, constrainingfrom us the exclamation, "Surely this is the Son of God.
The constraining love of Christ flows from this ground, that a man judges Christ to have died for him, from faith’s taking up of Christ in that noble expression of his love, (John v.
It is made the very sum and compend of the law, the fulfilling of it; for the truth is the most effectual and constraining principle of obedience, and withal the most sweet and pleasant.
But I do not know any more strong and constraining persuasion to forsake sin, than the consideration of the forgiving of it might yield.
Would not the reflex of his love prove more constraining on your hearts?
O what constraining motives of love and grace doth the gospel furnish, and the rarest cords to bind on Christ’s yoke upon a reasonable soul,—cords of the most unparalleled love!
But there is one more remark that I wish to make in reference to this constraining love of Jesus Christ, and that is, that in order to see and feel it we must take the point of view that this Apostle takes in my text.
Now let me ask you to consider the echo of this constraining love.
Now the first thing to notice is this constraining love.
Now, lastly, let me say a word about the constraining influence of this echoed love.
I said a moment or two ago that Christ's love to us is the constraining power, and that ours to Him is but the condition on which that power works.
No man ever touched another with the sweet constraining forces that lie in Christ's Gospel unless the heart of the speaker went out to grapple the hearts of the hearers.
But between the two there comes something which brings that constraining love to bear upon our hearts.
The organisation of the forces engaged and the constraining rules according to which this organisation worked, were of the nature of personal relations, and the impersonal factors in the case were taken for granted.
The legislator therefore, being unable to appeal to either force or reason, must have recourse to an authority of a different order capable of constraining without violence and persuading without convincing.
An all-constraining motive will be found in love to Him who has given Himself for us.
She wept, and Pivet owned he was ready to do so too; but constraining himself, protested she should command his life; and withdrew full of seeming uneasiness.
And God grant that this deep affliction which this church has sustained may be the means, in the hands of the Spirit, of constraining us to have more earnest and believing prayer, for the manifestation of His power to save unto the uttermost.
A European colony, he was sure, would be invaluable for constraining the tribes to live in peace.
Great deeds are wrought in unconsciousness, from constraining love to Christ; in humbly asking, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?
They seemed constraining her to do what out of pity or mechanical impulse she at once did--silently to hold out her hand.
Her voice to India has always been the voice of a constraining altruism.
There must be a constraining power and a felt conviction within, that in the mission field alone can he find rest and peace and power.
It was in our compact, my lord, that there should be no constraining of my men.
Upon each of these the prophet, as it were, lays hand, compelling the thing into shape and speech, constraining the abstract to do service as a man might.
