Wills Quotes
249 quotes by 202 authors
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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
— Marcus Aurelius
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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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
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
— Seneca the Younger
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?
— Dan Barker
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