Quotes About Will

If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?

If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.

There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

God's will is that no bounds should be set to His works.

May the Lord lay His hand on all that I do so that it may be in accordance with His holy will; this is always my desire, although my actions may be as imperfect as I myself am.

You can either allow the voice of the Lord to break, mold, and conform you to His will, or you can ignore His Word and let the inevitable judgments of life do the job more slowly and painfully. But you will be broken.

are to praise God at all times, whether we feel like it or not. Yet it is precisely at this point that our feelings and wills invariably collide.

There is a now Word of God for you, a now revelation from the Holy Spirit, that has direct bearing on your circumstances. Praise prepares you to receive this Word, by which God will reveal "the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself" (Eph. 1:9).

In one sense there will be something difficult even for God — namely, that which He has not done — not because He could not, but because He would not, do it. For with God, to be willing is to be able, and to be unwilling is to be unable; all that He has willed, however, He has both been able to accomplish, and has displayed His ability.

Qu'importe, mon Dieu, que je brûle toute l'éternité en enfer, si c'est ta volonté.

In Heaven, God will do all I desire, because on earth I have never done my own will.

La perfección consiste en hacer su voluntad, en ser lo que él quiere que seamos...

Plus les fleurs sont heureuses de faire sa volonté, plus elles sont parfaites.

There is no thing such as luck. If something comes your way it is because, in one way or another, you have intended it.

Everywhere bourgeois society insists on the exertion of will; only love is supposed to be involuntary, pure immediacy of feeling. In its longing for this, which means a dispensation from work, the bourgeois idea of love transcends bourgeois society.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Teach me, O Lord, to do Your will; teach me to live worthily and humbly in Your sight; for You are my wisdom, who know me truly, and who knew me before the world was made, and before I had my being.

Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit

As soon as you have given yourself to God with all your heart and seek neither this nor that for your own pleasure and purpose, but place yourself completely in His charge, you shall find yourself at peace, united with Him, because nothing will be so sweet, nothing will please you so much as the good pleasure of His will.

True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.