Quotes About Will

Der freie Wille sei zu nichts fähig außer zum Sündigen.

THIS, therefore, is also essentially necessary and wholesome for Christians to know: That God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will.

By contrast, if God works in us, the will is changed, and being gently breathed upon by the Spirit of God, it again wills and acts from pure willingness and inclination and of its own accord, not from compulsion

For since through the sin of Adam we are sunk in blindness, so that we are wholly ignorant of God in all His will and counsel, it is not only foolish but also impossible of ourselves to prepare a light and a way by which to approach God and find out what He would have us do, as He says in the Book of Wisdom (9:13-14): "The thoughts of mortals are fearful and uncertain. For who among men can know what God wants?

For the will is of no more power, and does no more with the Word, if the Spirit to move within be wanting; nor is it of less power, nor does it do less without the Word, if the Spirit be present, seeing that, all depends upon the power and operation of the Holy Spirit.

For the Spirit blows where He wills (John 3:8), not where we will.

The Turk is the rod of the wrath of the Lord our God... ...resisting the Turks, whom he presented as a scourge intentionally sent by God to sinning Christians, and that resisting it would have been equivalent to resisting the will of God...

THIS, therefore, is also essentially necessary and wholesome for Christians to know: That God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.

What you need beyond that is a facile imagination and the skills to apply it, driven by a passionate will toward a focused goal.

The father is at rest in will. Nothing happens without the father's pleasure, nothing happens without the father's will. And his will is incomprehensible. His will is his footprint, but none can understand him, nor does he exist so that they might study him32 in order to grasp him.

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.

Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you? We say so, because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it. It is not you, but your radiance. It is that which you know not in yourself, and can never know.

Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.

Is human love the growth of the human will ?

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures' will.

There is not love where there is no will.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

It's an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

Greater stories will have their way.

St. Justin Martyr wrote, "Jesus was born by the will of God the Father for the salvation of believers and the destruction of demons. And

I did not want to impose my will on others. I wanted the healing processes to grow out of the patient's own personality, not from suggestions by me that would have only a passing effect. My aim was to protect and preserve my patient's dignity and freedom, so that he could live his life according to his own wishes.

It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.