Quotes About Will

Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever. Amen.

That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.

To have no set purpose in one's life is harlotry of the will.

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate; As the voyage along thru life; 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Discontent is want of self-discipline; it is infirmity of will.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

in the first place, Majesty, a pyramid is power. It is repression,force,and wealth. But it is just as much: domination of the rabble; the narrowing of its mind; the weakening of its will; monotony; and waste. O my Pharaoh, it is your most reliable guardian. Your secret police. Your army. Your fleet. Your harem. The higher it is, the tinier your subjects will seem. And the smaller your subjects, the more you rise, o Majesty, to your full height.

And the patriarch Jacob declared in his last will and testament that the tribe of his son Judah would rule over them all

Unbalanced power is the ebbing away of life. Unbalanced mercy is but weakness and the fading out of the will. Unbalanced severity is cruelty and the barrenness of mind."7

Želja je kao vetar, premešta prašinu sa jednog mesta na drugo, zamra?uje ponekad njome ceo vidik, ali na kraju stišava se i pada i ostavlja staru i ve?nu sliku sveta iza sebe. Trajna dela na zemlji ostvaruju se božjom voljom, a ?ovek je samo njemo slepo i pokorno oru?e. Delo koje se ra?a iz želje, ?ovekove želje, ili ne doživi ostvarenje ili nije trajno, u svakom slu?aju nije dobro.

The Apostle] Paul's prayer for the Christians at Colosse should always be on our lips: That God fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding (Colossians 1:9).

I tell myself I talk to Friday to educate him out of darkness and silence. But is that the truth? There are times when benevolence deserts me and I use the words only as the shortest way to subject him to my will. At such times I understand why Cruso preferred not to disturb his muteness. I understand, that is to say, why a man will choose to be a slaveowner. Do you think less of me for this confession?

As much as we have free choice, absolute destiny is immutable. What is meant to happen does, through one measure or another.