Quotes About Will

Feelings come to us, passively; love comes from us, actively, by our free choice.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.

It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.

Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!

Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have.

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has made.

No human creature can give orders to love.

Love God, and do as you like, say the Free Spirits. Yes; but as long as you like anything contrary to God's will, you do not love Him.

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

To will and not to do when there is opportunity is in reality not to will; and to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will.

Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.

LOVE comes of its own free will, it can't be learned in any school!

Love and do as you will.

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

Perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God's.

Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.

God loves us, and the will of love is always blessing for its loved ones.