Quotes About Will

In our dreams we find the dreams of others and in other's dreams we find ourselves. No will is separated from others and no dream is in itself isolated from the will of God.

Slavery of the heart, oh Love - a prisoner of will thou art - proof that love, while blissful, can oft also be Hell. Demonstrative definition thou art, that love can be strategic as well!

But he did have initiative, faith and the will to win.

DESIRE OUTWITS MOTHER NATURE

Many, like the great Roman statesman Cato the Censor, looked at comfort, almost any form of comfort, as a road to waste.1 He did not like it when we had it too easy, as he worried about the weakening of the will. And the softening he feared was not just at the personal level: an entire society can fall ill.

thanks to the literature on cognition—that, counter to what everyone believes, not theorizing is an act—that theorizing can correspond to the absence of willed activity, the "default" option.

You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.

You can't expose a lie without first shattering the will to believe it. That is why leading people to truth is so much more effective than merely telling them.

Genius is childhood recovered at will.

I am delivered from the evils of this present world for it is the will of God. (Galatians 1:4).

he has discovered that the will of God is not to hate, not to torture, not to cast away from his presence, but to restore his creatures to goodness, that he may thereby restore them to usefulness.  David has discovered that God demands no sacrifice, much less self-torturing penance.  What he demands is the heart.  The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit.  A broken and a contrite heart he will not despise. 

Moses] dedicated himself to the will of God, but not to the God whose will it was.

You and I can become so dedicated to the will of God, we can be so driven by a false sense of purpose, that we might inadvertently take matters into our own hands and leave God completely out of the loop.

Those of us who are condemned as radicals, idealists, and dreamers call for basic reforms that, if enacted, would make peaceful reform possible. But corporate capitalists, now unchecked by state power and dismissive of the popular will, do not see the fires they are igniting.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.

Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Love is the commitment of my will to your needs and best interests, regardless of the cost

politics is then basically an act of will, not of reason.

In the beginning was the word and the word was CHOICE

It didn't take me long to conclude that that was the only sensible approach to editing this book of yours. No editor can hope to impose his will on a performance like this one. We've got to let Tom run.

No confundas esa última afirmación con suponer que puedes engendrar cualquier cosa que quieras. El secreto de la respuesta a la oración es estar alineado con Dios. Es tener tanta armonía con Dios que puedes orar conforme a su voluntad.

En palabras de Sartre: «Ser libre no es hacer lo que uno quiere, sino en querer hacer lo que uno puede».