Quotes About Will

As God adds his 'Yes' to your 'Yes,' as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your triumph and rejoicing and pride, he makes you at the same time instruments of his will and purpose both for yourselves and for others. In his unfathomable condescension God does add his 'Yes' to yours; but by doing so, he creates out of your love something quite new – the holy estate of matrimony…

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God's will and guidance. It is obvious, and it should not be ignored, that it is your own very human wills that are at work here, celebrating their triumph; the course that you are taking at the outset is one that you have chosen for yourselves…

God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God.

No one can say yes to God's ways who has said no to his promises and commandments. Acceptance of the will of God comes in the daily submission under his Word.

To be silent does not mean to be inactive; rather it means to breathe in the will of God, to listen attentively and be ready to obey.4 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Meditating on the Word

To be silent does not mean to be inactive; rather it means to breathe in the will of God, to listen attentively and be ready to obey.4 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Meditating on the

Since the appearance of Christ, ethics can be concerned with only one thing: to partake in the reality of the fulfilled will of God.

But when we create our own God and our own world, what we are really doing is to deify our own lust. We are then bound to hate our fellow-men, as obstacles standing in the way of our wills.

Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand—from the outset they must give up, as inappropriate to this topic, the very two questions that led them to deal with the ethical problem: "How can I be good?" and "How can I do something good?"[2] Instead they must ask the wholly other, completely different question: what is the will of God?

The only way is by mortifying our own wills which are always obtruding themselves. And the only way to do this is by letting Christ alone reign in our hearts, by surrendering our wills completely to him, by living in fellowship with Jesus and by following him. Then we can pray that his will may be done

God's will isn't always written in the sky, but it is clearly written in His Word.

Glazunov was the first to convince me that a composer must make the performers submit to his will, and not the other way around (...) The composer must orchestrate in the way he conceived his work, and not simplify his orchestration to please the performers.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

A veces el corazón envía mensajes al cerebro, y en otras ocasiones el cerebro parece enviar mensajes al corazón.Los mensajes del corazón parecen ser capaces de afectar la conducta de una persona.3 Nuestro verdadero ser se compone de lo que nuestro corazón le dice a nuestro cerebro, de lo que nuestro cerebro le dice a nuestro corazón, y de lo que nuestra voluntad decide creer, decir, y hacer.

The mystic attempts to overcome dogma, insisting that God, Christ and heaven are not 'up there' but are to be found in the heart by desire, by love, by the will; that is, by a path of inner purification.

9 Vean pues cómo han de orar: Padre nuestro, que estás en los cielos; santificado sea tu nombre. 10 Venga tu reino. Hágase tu voluntad, como en el cielo, así también en la tierra. 11 El pan nuestro de cada día dánoslo hoy. 12 Y perdónanos nuestras deudas, así como nosotros perdonamos a nuestros deudores. 13 Y no nos dejes caer en la tentación. Mas libranos del mal. Amén.

No man's plenum ... is impervious to the awl of God's will.

The will of God for your life is simply that you submit yourself to Him each day and say, 'Father, Your will for today is mine. You lead me today and I will follow.

I am the Soul. I am the Light Divine. I am Love. I am Will. I am Fixed Design.

What's the will of God for my life? You don't need to know the will of God in your life, you need to know the God of your life!

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ, nor of his will for my life.

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen