Quotes About Will

It is easier to accept your limits if you have a biblical view of success. The world defines success in terms of what a person possesses, controls, or accomplishes. God defines success in terms of faithful obedience to his will. The world asks, 'What results have your achieved?' God asks, 'Were you faithful to my ways?

14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

Jesus is talking about how you as an individual can receive the desires of your heart. Many times, people read something else into Mark 11:24. They think God might answer their prayer if it's His will. Well, it must have been His will to answer their prayers or Jesus never would have said to ask!

faith begins where the will, or the Word, of God is known.

Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.

I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is -- my point is, there's a strong will for democracy.

once the will is submitted to the Father the fundamental cause of our anxieties is now removed.

You can't say that the law is the power of God unto salvation. The law is the will of God, but it is certainly not the power of God to save people.

Explore daily the will of God.

Creativeness, like the freedom of the will, contains a secret. The psychologist can describe both these manifestations as processes, but he can find no solution of the philosophical problems they offer.

Should we will error? You should not, but you do will that error which you take for the best truth, as men have always done.

We cannot fight fortuna, only try to anticipate her whims and, if we're lucky, bend her to our will.

In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

La ley prohibe que en tu testamento dispongas: con el solomillo de mi cadaver se hara roast-beef para mis hijos y nietos debera quedar dorado por fuera y sangrante por dentro y servirse con patatas hervidas al vapor.

The key to your universe is that you can choose.

To make what fate intends for me my own intention

Maybe he was overwhelmed, like I am overwhelmed, by that mysterious intersection where love meets luck, where fate meets will. Because he'd been waiting for her. And there she was.

Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.

I say "illusion" of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of merely perfunctory activity. For the most part, their desires are not too strong, they are too weak, apathetic and easily placated. They often can be tempted into doing Nothing.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

will is a bargaining situation, not an organ.

In attempting to construct such machines we should not be irreverently usurping His power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children: rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates. —Alan Turing, 1950

a bemused Lincoln noted how he was bombarded with a range of opinions from "religious men" all "equally certain that they represent the Divine will.

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.