Quotes About Will

So fine a medicine is the will to action.

Today I fell to the ground at the pull of memory. There quite seemed a permanence to my defeat. And here I thought, in their profound tug-of-war, present and future would, by sheer shouldering force of will and superior numbers, win out over the past. How wrong I was. —Marghanita Laski

Math is a product of human minds but not bendable to human will

A MOTTO OF THE HUMAN RACE Tell me what to do; but it must be what I want you to tell me.

Ultimately, it isn't your knowledge that makes the choice: it is your values and your will to be faithful to your values.

If the gift is finally the sign and content of Christ's lordship in earth, we can no longer live by our own will and right but constantly stand in responsibility and accountability. . . . To this degree the last day does not differ from each earthly day'.

There is in Shaw, as in Gurdjieff and Nietzsche, a recognition of the immense effort of Will that is necessary to express even a little freedom, that places them beside Pascal and St. Augustine as religious thinkers. Their view is saved from pessimism only by its mystical recognition of the possibilities of pure Will, freed from the entanglements of automatism

Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?' We can even deceive ourselves into thinking we are Christian or that we are following God. But when adversity comes, the true believer will still weather it standing, though he may go through a fire of doubt. This is God's mercy to us, to strengthen our faith and our hearts. Allow this adversity to bow your knee to God and accept his will.

Be, He will, what all need him be.

Disappointment be not there when one thinks by the will of The Divine.

Je suis fils de l'homme et de la femme, d'après ce qu'on m'a dit. Ça m'étonne... je croyais être davantage! Au reste, que m'importe d'où je viens? Moi, si cela avait pu dépendre de ma volonté, j'aurais voulu être plutôt le fils de la femelle du requin, dont la faim est amie des tempêtes, et du tigre, à la cruauté reconnue: je ne serais pas si méchant.

Ambrose says: "Faith is the mother of a good will and doing what is right.

the Founders were concerned that the will of the people could easily become the preferences of the mob.

They had learned that Sorhatani expected the same sort of instant obedience as her husband. She had grown up around men of power and had married into the great khan's family at a very young age. She knew that men prefer to follow, that it takes an effort of will to lead. She had that will.

The heart doesn't ask permission. It is singularly unconcerned with the qualifications of those it chooses to love. It mocks the intellect, it subjugates reason, and it holds hostage the will to survive.

The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

So, as we have our tea, I propose not only to operate on your heart so as to change your will, but also on your eyes so as to change your outlook. But wait a minute. No, I do not propose to operate at all. I myself cannot do anything of the sort. I am just mildly suggesting that you are perhaps dead, and perhaps blind, leaving you to think the matter over for yourself. If an operation is to be performed it must be performed by God Himself.

There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!

His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside of it!

There are no 'ifs' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety—Oh Corrie, let us pray that we may always know it!

Don't say it, Corrie! There are no 'ifs' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety—Oh Corrie, let us pray that we may always know it!

And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety—Oh

There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety...

Sometimes what we think will make us happy is the opposite of what God wants for us.