Quotes About Will

For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. (Philippians 2:13)

when it comes to salvation, no one under the dominion of sin can simply "decide" to be free from it unless God causes him to be free, nor would the person wish to be free from sin before this occurs.

God is one "who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will" (v. 11), and not one who considers man's permission and opinion. Since there is divine sovereignty, there is no human freedom, or free will – "only an insane person could believe both of these."[86]

God not only sustains and controls all things, but he sovereignly sustains and controls all things. He can bring to life or put to death, cause to move or cause to stop, and create or destroy, all at his will and pleasure.

The standard of right and wrong rested solely on God's authority, not as something outside of him, but as identical to his will, and expressed in his instructions and commands.

it is God's righteous decree to reveal his wrath and his power (v. 22), and to show forth his mercy toward the elect (v. 23). All things are done by God's will and power, and he needs no excuse for his decrees and actions.

let us not be ashamed of the gospel, that God saves his chosen ones by his grace, according to his will and his pleasure, and for his glory.

Revelation 4:11 says, "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.

I'm always inclined to believe that the best way of knowing [the divine] is to love a great deal. Love that friend, that person, that thing, whatever you like, you'll be on the right path to knowing more thoroughly, afterwards; that's what I say to myself. But you must love with a high, serious intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence, and you must always seek to know more thoroughly, better, and more.

At present this horror of life is already less pronounced, and the melancholy less acute. But I still have no will, and hardly any desires, or none at all that are to do with ordinary life.

But you must love with a high, serious intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence, and you must always seek to know more thoroughly, better, and more.

The gods thought otherwise.

Yes, but those people simply don't understand the will of God in all this. The scriptures are quite clear about the basis for slavery. I know some would have us go against God's will, but they are simply ignorant.

The will of angry gods, an unknown force, are dragging me along, despite myself.

The gigantic will which Buddha and Jesus threw over the world, whence did it come? Whence came this accumulation of power? It must have been there through ages and ages, continually growing bigger and bigger, until it burst on society in a Buddha or a Jesus, even rolling down to the present day.

on account of their possessing their own minds, it is possible that their wills may differ, and that, whilst one desires creation, another may desire destruction. The only way of avoiding this conflict is to make all wills subordinate to some one will.

Those who are constantly attached to Me and worship Me with love — I give that direction to their will by which they come to Me.

The love of God for man is so great that it cannot constrain; for there is no love without respect. Divine will always will submit itself to gropings, to detours, even to revolts of human will to bring it to a free consent: of such is divine providence, and the classical image of the pedagogue must seem feeble indeed to anyone who has felt God as a beggar of love waiting at the soul's door without ever daring to force it.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning or intention, as if the poem were a will, a contract, or the constitution?

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.