Quotes About Will

Sorrow hath chang'd its note : such is His will Who changeth all things

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

Call it boldness, call it madness, call it fortune or the will of the gods or the caprice of dragons. Who can know the mind of such a beast?

I can . . . die as I please.

No human creature can give orders to love.

You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

For what is most dreaded is not the agony of dying, nor yet the strange impossibility that when we do not exist we should suffer for not existing. What is dreaded is the defeat of a present will directed upon life and its various undertakings.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

Avoidance of lunacy is an insufficient agenda." -George Will on Ronald Reagan, 3-6-1987

Even sin, once the will is detached and no longer nourishes it, withers and dies sterile. It is in the secret of intentions, like in a decomposing humus, in the dark forest of future sins, unpardoned sins, half dead, half living, that new poisons are distilled.

The active night of the spirit is characterized by similar disciplines and restraints applied to the intellect, memory, will, and imagination. John's primary example here is of practicing the virtues. He says that the three theological virtues (faith, hope, and love) are instrumental in freeing the spirit from its attachments. Faith darkens and empties the intellect, hope frees the memory, and love liberates the will.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling.

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.

Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

We forget because we must And not because we will.

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not in an exemption from, suffering.

If our petitions are in accordance with His will, and if we seek His glory in the asking, the answers will come in ways that will astonish us and fill our hearts with songs of thanksgiving.