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Quotes About Will

I freely will the best choice, thus willing the same will
~ serge jerkezian
To love is to will the good of the other.
~ Thomas Aquinas
What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.
~ Thomas Cranmer
Don't overcomplicate God's will. Just stay connected to Jesus. Love Him. Look into His eyes. He will lead. Follow. Repeat.
~ Louie Giglio
So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.
~ Omar Khayyam
Cordial love of the neighbor does not consist in feelings. This love flows not from a heart of flesh but from the heart of our will.
~ Jane Frances de Chantal
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
~ Thomas Aquinas
A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
~ Alfred Nobel
Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
~ C. S. Lewis
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn
~ Kenji Miyazawa
I will also tell you a secret. We have to will one another: this is the beginning of conscious love.
~ Maurice Nicoll
All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.
~ John of the Cross
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.
~ Stendhal
In your journey through New England,' he wrote, 'Would you be willing to visit Northampton? You have the blessing of Heaven with you wherever you go, and I have a desire, if it be the will of God, that same blessing may come down on this town.
~ Johnathan Edwards
I thought of Will telling me if I didn't stop bloody whistling he'd be forced to run me over.
~ Jojo Moyes
I tried - not because I really had an appetite for genetics - but because I couldn't bear the thought that Will would go on and on at me if I didn't. He was like that now. He was actually a bit of a bully. And, really annoyingly, he would quiz me on how much I had read of something, just to make sure I really had.
~ Jojo Moyes
Il suo corpo era solamente una componente dell'intero pacchetto, una cosa da affrontare a intervalli regolari, prima di tornare alle chiacchere. Credo che fosse diventata la parte meno interessante di Will.
~ Jojo Moyes
Quiero que viva si él quiere vivir. Si no es así, al obligarlo a seguir adelante, tú, yo, por mucho que lo queramos, nos habremos convertido en otro hatajo de imbéciles que no sabe respetar su voluntad".
~ Jojo Moyes
You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: It wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the macarena.
~ Jon Stewart
You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.
~ Jon Stewart
This is why the Third Way is also authoritarian. It assumes that the right man—or, in the case of Leninists, the right party—can resolve all of these contradictions through sheer will. The populist demagogue takes on the role of the parent telling the childlike masses that he can make everything "all better" if they just trust him.
~ Jonah Goldberg
Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.
~ Jonathan Edwards
there is no way that the Will can determine an act of the Will, than by willing that act of the Will, or, which is the same thing, choosing it.
~ Jonathan Edwards