Quotes About Unwillingness

petition to be excused from the said service, upon pretence of unwillingness to force the consciences, or destroy the liberties and lives of an innocent people.

I can best describe our state as a form of lethargy- an unwillingness to think about what had happened. So we carried on.

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

Changing a Habit is Never Difficult.Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it

The best and the most talented in the pastoral ministry and in denominational hierarchies harm themselves and harm the church most through their unrestrained ego and unwillingness to step off the high places. Sexual sin gets the press, but ego sin kills the church.

God is missed through laziness, indifference and unwillingness.

The thing is, most people just don't enjoy haggling, period.

We may reconcile ourselves to the world at our peril, but it will never reconcile itself to us. . . . This unwillingness to die, doth actually impeach us of high treason against the Lord : is it not a choosing of earth before him ; and taking these present things for our happiness, and consequently asking them our very God (469)?

I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to equivocate in delivering bad news.

I suppose I do not on the whole greatly admire the 'Tortoises' of this world. While one may appreciate their plodding steadiness and ability to survive, one suspects their lack of frankness, their capacity for treachery. And I suppose, in the end, one despises their unwillingness to take chances in the name of ambition or for the sake of a principle they claim to believe in.

Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.

Thus, assigning of homework from the first session on enables a counselor to discover quickly (1) who is willing and able to do God's will, (2) who is willing but unable to do so (and what impediments stand in the way), and (3) who is unwilling.

Darkness is a result of disinterest in God, rebellion against Him, and unwillingness to do what He says. There is but one message that shines light into such darkness, refreshing hearts and minds: "Behold your God!

proclaimed a predictably democratic unwillingness to be disagreed with, and used that unwillingness to pull down the entire house.

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life

Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right.

It's not just our high-mindedness or altruism that keeps us off "the scent," nor is it that our public is not interested in "higher" things (they are). Some basic unwillingness to see things as they are and then attempt to take corrective action is missing in our present make-up. We are neither good diagnosticians nor good leaders. Rather, caterers and men of fashion. More interested in curtain walls than how to accommodate the car.

What makes America's current polarization remarkable isn't the severity of our disagreements but the regressive right's unwillingness to seriously debate them. So

That shows how the very notion of a suffering Messiah was a scandal to the Church, even in its earliest days. That is not the kind of Lord it wants, and as the Church of Christ it does not like to have the law of suffering imposed upon it by its Lord. Peter's protest displays his own unwillingness to suffer, and that means that Satan has gained entry into the Church, and is trying to tear it away from the cross of its Lord.

If he's just watching, then we're all unwilling participants in the universe's biggest reality show—the original Survivor.

While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders.

Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.

The incompetent leading the unwilling to do the unnecessary

As we will see in several cases, it was my unwillingness to do what the client wanted that led to real help.