Quotes About Will

We cannot be bound beyond what we are able to perform, by reason that effect and performance are not at all in our power, and that, indeed, we are masters of nothing but the will, in which, by necessity, all the rules and whole duty of mankind are founded and established.

Remember, a suggestion cannot impose itself on the subconscious mind against the will of the conscious mind. Your conscious mind has the power to reject the suggestion.

In his "Canticle of the Creatures," Saint Francis says, "Blessed are those whom death will find in your most holy will, for the second death shall do them no harm.

But you have no religious faith. Richard had said, smiling, you're not even a believer. Jennifer hadn't tried to explain to him that religious belief was not the point. The will to believe created its own power, its own faith, and, ultimately, its own will. Through the practice of faith, whatever its specific rituals, one brought into existence the object of that faith. The believer became the Creator.

God's Will is what we would choose if we knew what God knows.

there is no humane way to rule people against their will.

Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.

It is painful for women to talk about beauty because under the myth, one woman's body is used to hurt another. Our faces and bodies become instruments for punishing other women, often used out of our control and against our will.

Nature has endowed man with absolute control over but one thing, and that is thought.

He had no influence. But he did have initiative, faith, and the will to win.

A tough will counts. So does desire. So does a rich soft wanting. Without rich wanting nothing arrives.

Our will operates in spite of our indulgence. For example, your will is already opening your gap, little by little." "What gap are you talking about?" "There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head of a child which closes with age, this gap opens as one develops one's will.

Perhaps it's not possible to explain, he said. Certain things in your life matter to you because they're important; your acts are certainly important to you, but for me, not a single thin is important any longer neither my acts nor the acts of any of my fellow men. I go on living though. because I have my will. Because I have tempered my will throughout my life until it's neat and wholesome and now it doesn't matter to me that nothing matters. My will controls the folly of my life.

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

Az ember azért hisz, amiért levegÅ't vesz: mert életben akar maradni.

of God in my life. I surrender my mind, my heart, my need for safety, and my need for rational explanations and orderly instructions to God's will for me. I trust that all that is in my life is as it should be. I release

We remain terrified that by acknowledging Divine will—by surrendering our will to a greater will—we will become separated from all that brings us physical comfort.

Soon a messenger brought back the will, together with two photostats of the document.

God created our emotions to work in harmony with our other two most fundamental faculties: our mind and our will.

Though,' observed Sloan profoundly, 'where there's a will there's usually a relative.

I don't believe in magic, yet I see making wishes as a nod to hope, an acknowledgement of the power of will, the recognition of a goal.

In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.

You can't try to keep someone against their will, or it's difficult to get them to listen or have the right mentality.

My back is full of metal; so are my hands and legs. I'll have to decide who will get all that in my will. It's probably worth a fortune in scrap metal. But it doesn't affect my movement.