Wills Quotes

249 quotes by 202 authors

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but… — James Allen
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who… — Thomas Aquinas
In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness,… — Karl Barth
And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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… — Oswald Chambers
Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to… — Ole Hallesby
Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is quiet because he… — Zhuangzi
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. — Seneca the Younger
India is calling Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms ! we shall carve our… — Subhas Chandra Bose
In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the… — Adolf Hitler
We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are… — R C Sproul
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's… — Abraham Lincoln
The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was… — Abraham Lincoln
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity… — John Jay Chapman
Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the… — Richard J. Foster
Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise… — Thomas Merton
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat… — Isaiah Berlin
If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray? — Dan Barker

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