Quotes About Will

The ruling planets for Scorpio are Mars and Pluto. Mars is the planet of outward activity and animal passion. When strong in the chart it can indicate a volatile temper, and also great courage. Pluto is related to will, and intense passion, and has a reputation for ruthlessness. As god of the underworld Pluto brings the deepest compulsions into the light. Its position indicates areas of life that must ultimately become transformed as part of the soul's evolution.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

Consistency and will are, therefore, important dimensions of strategic competence. But our will is diminished. As our foreign policies swung from over-optimism to resignation, identity politics interacted with new forms of populism. That interaction divided us and diminished confidence in our democratic principles, institutions, and processes.

Wanting to be is not the same as choosing to be

Let your will burn in this fire so that it takes you nowhere else. Let your self be burned in this fire of eternity, love and peace. Don't be afraid of this fire, it is love itself. This desire for freedom is the fire of love!

Like any other sin, the stronghold is in the will, and the will or purpose to doubt must be surrendered exactly as you surrender the will or purpose to yield to any other temptation. God always takes possession of a surrendered will.

There are no obstacles which our Savior's love cannot overcome. The High Places of victory and union with Christ can be reached by learning to accept, day by day, the actual conditions and tests permitted by God, by laying down of our own will and accepting His. The lessons of accepting and triumphing over evil, of becoming acquainted with grief, and pain, and of finding them transformed into something incomparably precious; these are the lessons of the allegory in this book.

If we want our worship, or attempts at worship, to mean anything, we have to strive to conform it to the nature and will of God, and not to the mood or taste of the century.

Damp tonnage and alluvial march of days…Tortured with history, its one will—flow!

The war was started as the result of a mistaken intuitive "calculation" which transcended mathematics. We believed with a blind fervor that we could triumph over scientific weapons and tactics by means of our mystic will…. The characteristic reliance on intuition by Japanese had blocked the objective cognition of the modern world.

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

If the robot can recognize the clean flame of life in men who have never fallen from life then he repents, and his will breaks, and a great love of life brings him to his knees, in homage and pure passion of service. Then he receives the kiss of reconciliation and ceases to be a robot, and becomes a servant of life.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.

El deseo es una acémila. Si la monta Dios, avanza y camina como Dios quiere; si la monta el diablo, avanza y camina como quiere el diablo. No puede elegir quién la monta (...) y los caballeros luchan por montarla. Lutero

Assume full responsibility for the dream. For "through the dream the man makes the matter his own; it is in his will, and he is responsible for it."19

Both writing and poker function as economies of status and prestige, and both require a survivalist's iron will.

Pursue God. Pursue his will. Then trust him to reveal it.

For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.

It is God who is the ultimate reason of things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.

Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we good citizens take comfort in. Lazarus obeying orders and climbing up out of the grave - now there's a miracle, and you can bet it upset a lot of folks who were standing around at the time. When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of the earth.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.