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Quotes About Will

The great revelation of the will of God is the Word of God. And the Word of God is packed from beginning to end with divine promises. The
~ Derek Prince
When you commit yourself to God's will without reservation, God becomes responsible to provide for you.
~ Derek Prince
Ma chère, I serve a man who multiplied the loaves and fishes"—he smiled, nodding at the pool, where the swirls of the carps' feeding were still subsiding—"who healed the sick and raised the dead. Shall I be astonished that the master of eternity has brought a young woman through the stones of the earth to do His will?" Well, I reflected, it was better than being denounced as the whore of Babylon.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Doom, or save. That I cannot do. For I have no power beyond that of knowledge, no ability to bend others to my will, no way to stop them doing what they will. There is only me.
~ Diana Gabaldon
thought that was perhaps how some ghosts were made; where a will and a purpose had survived, heedless of the frail flesh that fell by the wayside, unable to sustain life long enough.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I thought that was perhaps how some ghosts were made; where a will and a purpose had survived, heedless of the frail flesh that fell by the wayside, unable to sustain life long enough. I
~ Diana Gabaldon
Ma chère, I serve a man who multiplied the loaves and fishes"—he smiled, nodding at the pool, where the swirls of the carps' feeding were still subsiding—"who healed the sick and raised the dead. Shall I be astonished that the master of eternity has brought a young woman through the stones of the earth to do His will?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Doom, or save. That I cannot do. For I have no power beyond that of knowledge, no ability to bend others to my will, no way to stop them doing what they will. There is only me. I shook the snow from the folds of my cloak, and turned to follow Maisri down the path, sharing her bitter knowledge that there was only me. And I was not enough.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Will is the dynamic soul-force.
~ Albert Pike
We're going to do everything we can to harden our systems, to make sure that our elections are free and fair and the will of the American people is implemented.
~ Robert C. O'Brien
Because we have a sense of completion within us, and because we have the will and desire to reach that state of completion, human beings have the potential for greatness and can become greater at any time.
~ Ilchi Lee
God who is in the heart of all people I pray earnestly that your will becomes realized. What I'm most grateful for is that even if I were not to have eyes, ears, and a body you have given me this soul so that I can know you, who are invisible, and for that I thank you with all my heart. " —
~ Ilchi Lee
There is, therefore, only one categorical imperative. It is: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
~ Immanuel Kant
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
~ Immanuel Kant
Allah exalts whom he wills!
~ Imran Khan
he makes a vast contrast between nature, which is this elemental, capricious, perhaps causal, perhaps chance-directed entity, and man, who has morality, who distinguishes between desire and will, duty and interest, the right and the wrong, and acts accordingly, if need be against nature.
~ Isaiah Berlin
It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
I shivered at the notion of a Misfit with empathy or coercion, driven by defective will. Thank Lud, Ariel had never realised his abiities or used them consciously. How much more harm might he have done? Chapter 9, page 97
~ Isobelle Carmody
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. If this is not the case, then humanity becomes — as it is already to a large extent — no more than a rabbit-warren. But this is no longer a "free-range" warren but a "battery" one, in the conditions of artificiality in which it lives, with artificial light and chemical feed.
~ Italo Calvino
Il vino è un grande pericolo specie perchè non porta a galla la verità. Tutt'altro che la verità anzi: rivela dell'individuo specialmente la sua attuale volontà; getta capricciosamente alla luce anche tutte le ideuccie con le quali in epoca più o meno recente ci si baloccò e che si sono dimenticate; trascura le cancellature e legge tutto quello ch'è ancora percettibile nel nostro cuore.
~ Italo Svevo
In its final words The Spirit of Utopia expresses the new symbiosis of Jewish commandment and modern will: `Only the wicked exist through their God; but the righteous - God exists through them
~ Jurgen Moltmann
To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God.
~ Unknown
Here is found the most fundamental difference between liberalism and Christianity—liberalism is altogether in the imperative mood, while Christianity begins with a triumphant indicative; liberalism appeals to man's will, while Christianity announces, first, a gracious act of God.
~ J. Gresham Machen
The gift is the gift of the path to a richer, more responsible humanness; authenticity includes the choice to make an act of will despite desire, not simply bringing desire and will into line. To choose to believe, to choose to continue to believe, to choose to be faithful, loyal, and trustworthy, despite all the pressures to unbelief and disloyalty, is typical of the choices that constitute, or contribute toward, the life of Christian virtue.
~ Unknown