Quotes About Will

What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.

Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

I clap my hands in delight. Is there anything more intoxicating than making a boy bend to your will?

Riding is about bending it to your will, and public riding is to demonstrate that authority.

He tells me that you would have actually accomplished your purpose, had not our brethren with affectionate care held you back. I thank you all the same and regard it as a kindness shown. For in the case of friends one must accept the will for the deed. Enemies often give us the latter, but only sincere attachment can bring us the former.

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

God in His love always wills what is best for us. In His wisdom He always knows what is best, and in His sovereignty He has the power to bring it about.

No one can act outside of God's sovereign will or against it. Centuries ago, Augustine said, "Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen: he either permits it to happen, or he brings it about himself."5

But the holiness of Jesus was more than simply the absence of actual sin. It was also a perfect conformity to the will of His Father.

Every sin we commit reinforces the habit of sinning and makes it easier to sin. In the previous chapter we discussed the importance of guarding our minds and emotions, since these faculties are the channels through which the various compelling forces reach our wills. But it is also important that we understand how our habits influence our wills.

We cannot categorize sin if we are to live a life of holiness. God will not let us get away with that kind of attitude.

In all of our thoughts, all of our actions, in every part of our character, the ruling principle that motivates and guides us should be the desire to follow Christ in doing the will of the Father.

The so-called laws of nature are nothing more than the physical expression of the steady will of Christ.

God is in control; He is sovereign. He does whatever pleases Him and determines whether we can do what we have planned.

But God has not walked away from the day-to-day control of His creation. Certainly He has established physical laws by which He governs the forces of nature, but those laws continuously operate according to His sovereign will.

He permits, for reasons known only to Himself, people to act contrary to and in defiance of His revealed will. But He never permits them to act contrary to His sovereign will.

Sometimes, according to the Bible, God even moves in the hearts of some people to act stubbornly.

but rather that He works in His mysterious way through their wills to accomplish His purposes.

Your promotion, or lack of it, is in the hand of God. Your superiors are simply His agents to carry out His will.

The relationship of the sovereign will of God to the freedom and moral responsibility of people is one of those mysteries.

Yet the Scriptures teach that God does move a person's will, but in such a way that the person acts freely and voluntarily. Furthermore, sovereignty on a human plane suggests force and coercion, people doing things against their wills as in the subjection of slaves to masters, but the Scriptures never portray God's sovereignty in this manner.