Quotes About Will

Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any

In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.

Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

Love God, then do what you will.

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will.

Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

Love can't be forced into existence,(...)It won't come simply because you will it to happen

We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.

For among other things he had been counseled to bring me to love knowledge and duty by my own choice, without forcing my will, and to educate my soul entirely through gentleness and freedom.

God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will.

L'esprit croit naturellement, et la volonté aime naturellement; de sorte que, faute de vrais objets, il faut qu'ils s'attachent aux faux.

It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; [47] so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

The will is one of the chief organs of belief, not because it creates belief, but because things are true or false according to the aspect by which we judge them. When the will likes one aspect more than another, it deflects the mind from considering the qualities of the one it does not care to see. Thus the mind, keeping in step with the will, remains looking at the aspect preferred by the will and so judges by what it sees there.

God wishes to move the will rather than the mind. Perfect clarity would help the mind and harm the will. Humble their pride.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions. However different the means they may employ, they all strive towards this goal. The reason why some go to war and some do not is the same desire in both, but interpreted in two different ways. The will never takes the least step except to that end. This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.

Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!

Later.--It is done. My will is made, and all complete. Mina if she survive is my sole heir. If it should not be so, then the others who have been so good to us shall have remainder.

What I'm trying to get at,' he says, 'is whether Dr Ketterley persuaded you to go anywhere. Whether he kept you anywhere against your will. Whether you were free to come and go.' 'Yes. I was free. I came and went. I did not remain in one place. I walked for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of kilometres.

I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force anybody to want to.