Quotes About Will

The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the will is stirred And that is a deeper place by far. That is the place of response, of unifying one's heart, mind, soul and feet around a decision.

He said he was raising his kids to believe in the will not the rules and that we would go to the Unitarian Church.

we could never truly understand God's will. We have to trust God, have faith in Him, and follow the rules He gave us without ever understanding Him.

The sea is not a whore, for she is free and joyous, but she is a woman. She obeys the moon, as women do, and her depths contain both treasures and horrors, and men try to bend her to their will and rarely succeed, no matter how much money they spend in the attempt. The sea does as she wishes, and anyone who would be her lover must be her partner, not her master.

Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.

I love you, Kit. I just do." I muttered, "Well, you don't have to sound like it's against your will.

We've been given a mind innovated by the Holy Spirit to know God, as well as a heart to love him and a will to choose him. We need to function in all three areas to have a maximum relationship with God and to glorify him.

We are only underlings of fate if we choose to let the wills of others shape our lives." -Thomas Richards

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

My duty is simply my own will brought to my clear self-consciousness. That which I can rightly view as good for me is simply the object of my own deepest desire set plainly before my insight.

You will bend," I said. "For me, whenever and however I wish." My breath catching, I added, "But you will never break. You're far too strong for that and besides, I won't let you.

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.

To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.

La mano es el instrumento de nuestras obras, el signo de nuestra nobleza, el medio por donde la inteligencia reviste de forma sus pensamientos artísticos, y da ser a las creaciones de la voluntad, y ejerce el imperio que Dios concedió al hombre sobre todas las criaturas.

When Addy died and her will decreed

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Modesty is not a religion in itself but rather a twofold act of the will for God's glorification. Therefore we must work towards and possess a well-formed conscience, practice prudence and try to live a life of holiness, which the Church calls Christians to do anyway.

We are women. And the men who hold our fates hardly conceive that we have desires and dreams of our own. If we are ever to live the lives we want, we have to make them conceive it. Our bravery, the force of our will, shall be their proof.

I was ready to talk about... and I'm ready to die on the hills of due process, individualism, and free thought.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

It is a state of preparation: a way of opening the door. That which comes in when the door is opened will be that which we truly and passionately desire. The will makes plain the way: the heart--the whole man--conditions the guest. The true contemplative, coming to this plane of utter stillness, does not desire "extraordinary favours and visitations," but the privilege of breathing for a little while the atmosphere of Love.