Quotes About Will

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

Man does what he can, and God what he will.

Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

Man proposes, God disposes.

Much that is natural, to the will must yield. Men manufacture both machine and soul, And use what they imperfectly control To dare a future from the taken routes.

Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.

Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

A man has a right to want to live.

As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.

Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.

No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ.

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

Man Proposeth, God disposeth.

In life, man proposes, God disposes.

It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man's course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.