Quotes About Will

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

Honestly if men are given a choice, we'll choose everything.

Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action.

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

A man is the origin of his action.

Man proposes, and God disposes.

Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.

Love potions? For Will Herondale? T'aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no need of love potions, and that's a fact.