Wills Quotes

249 Wills quotes by 199 unique authors

Chess is a test of wills. — Paul Keres
Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who… — Grantland Rice
Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come from a very… — Michael Milken
No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some,… — Stephen Charnock
Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in obtaining… — Saint John Chrysostom
We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's… — Isidore of Seville
God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways… — Pope Francis
America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land… — D. H. Lawrence
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is… — George Eliot
If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God. — Oswald J. Smith
I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer… — Jay Leno
Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they… — Charles M. Blow
Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly… — Thomas Paine
In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience. — Richard Baxter
There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God. — Frederick William Faber
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself. — Saint Augustine
The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life… — Albert Schweitzer
The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they… — Andrew Dickson White
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as… — Wilhelm Dilthey
When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has… — Catherine of Genoa
In conclusion, the submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things… — Neal A. Maxwell
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him — Eldridge Cleaver
God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good; what suits one would… — John Henry Newman

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