Quotes About Will

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.

In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.'

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

If we ask anything according to his will he heareth us.

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray pray thyself in me.

True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will not the other way around.

I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me.

O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.

There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.

Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.

Ah, well … at last I realized that God would never ask of me that which I know to be psychologically impossible; that the love which He asked was in my will and not meant to be felt as emotion. No. Not at all. He was asking that I act with love; that I do unto others; and that I should do it unto those who repelled me, I believe, was a greater act of love than any other.

And perhaps even Satan—Satan, in spite of himself—somehow serves to work out the will of God.

at last I realised that God would never ask of me that which I know to be psychologically impossible; that the love which He asked was in my will and not meant to be felt as emotion at all. Not at all. He was asking that I act with love; that I do unto others; and that I should do it unto those who repelled me, I believe, was a greater act of love than any other.

Y tal vez el propio Satán, a pesar de sí mismo, sirva de alguna manera para cumplir la voluntad de Dios.

that the love which He asked was in my will and not meant to be felt as emotion. No. Not at all. He was asking that I act with love; that I do unto others; and that I should do it unto those who repelled me, I believe, was a greater act of love than any other.

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners.