Quotes About Will

This phenomenology, however, is always on the horizon, because it is the will to exhaust the things themselves, which are inexhaustible. What makes it already be there--never there--is its radicalism, which gives way to an impassioned fermentation.

History is not made in advance...It depends on the will and audacity of men upon occasion, and...it contains an element of contingency and risk.

There is in all expression a spontaneity which will not take orders, not even those which I would like to give to myself.

But what we are, we are, on account of our own diligence or negligence, and what we shall be in the future depends upon what we will to be and not upon Divine caprice or upon inexorable fate. No matter what the circumstances, it lies with us to master them, or to be mastered, as we will.

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

Creative Imagination is not something reserved for the poets, the philosophers, the inventors. It enters into our every act. For imagination sets the goal "picture" that our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of "will," as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

There is the will of the people, there is the will of the mind! Always be at the side of the second one! The first one contains mostly stupidity; the second one contains always intelligence.

I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!

Alle Dinge müssen, der Mensch allein ist das Wesen, welches will.

Whoever wants to receive the body of our Lord does not need to scrutinize what they are feeling at the time or how great their piety or devotion is, but rather they should note the state of their will and attitude of mind. You should not place too much weight on your feelings but emphasize rather the object of your love and striving.

When we go out of ourselves through obedience and strip ourselves of what is ours, then God must enter into us; for when someone wills nothing for themselves, then God must will on their behalf just as he does for himself.

If God told an angel to go to a tree and pluck caterpillars off it, the angel would be quite ready to do so, and it would be his happiness, if it were the will of God.

Where I will nothing for myself, there wills instead my God.

God did nothing more than this: he willed it, he spoke it, and it was.

Yet it seemed to Bega that if she could continue to read, which had come so easily to her... then that would be a life which take every ounce of her strength. She wanted no less. She loved to see the shapes and strokes of line and turn them into words: she loved the idea of battling against enemies external and internal and all her will being consumed in that battle.

Um homem salva-se se é vontade da sua vida. Os outros são só o alimento dessa vontade.

Mas a morte é uma guerra de enganos. As vitórias são só derrotas adiadas. A vida enquanto tem vontade vai construindoa pessoa.

Mudam-se os tempos, desnudam-se as vontandes.

God made us without ourselves," to repeat the much-quoted saying of Saint Augustine, "but He cannot sanctify us without ourselves.

He will console you at certain times, but the greater work is to do His will in the darkness of faith. Faith is of utmost importance.

Though the fear of what was coming returned to him a little, he looked upward to a presence and spoke with it and listened to the answering silence. He knew now that this silence was not absence or negation. It was the language transcending all language, and it crossed the void that man's will had made between himself and God.

White fragility is a will to innocence that serves to bury the violence it sits on top off.

We have given this country the spiritual will and the moral maturity it lost in the bitter divorce of principle and practice. Our nation can only reach its best