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title: "3 Love Coercion Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Love Coercion quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Love Coercion sayings and thoughts."
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> [“Love is not coercion, and the state is only an agent of coercion. It has no other function and can work no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-mcdurmon/love-is-not-coercion-and-the-state-is-only-an-agent-of-coercion-it/)

[Joel McDurmon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-mcdurmon/)

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> [ \[Jesus\] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-yancey/jesus-invoked-a-different-kind-of-power-love-not-coercion/)

[Philip Yancey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-yancey/)

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> [Love has to spring spontaneously from within And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. Love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/meher-baba/love-has-to-spring-spontaneously-from-within-and-it-is-no-way/)

[Meher Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/meher-baba/)

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