Best Wills Sayings
249 Wills quotes by 199 unique authors
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It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
— C.S. Lewis
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Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny…
— St. Vincent
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For centuries, Jews have been unjustly treated and despised. It is time they were treated with justice and humanity. God wills it and the Church…
— Pope Pius XII
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God wills us to have everything. As we express life, we fulfill God's law of abundance, but we do this only as we realize that…
— Ernest Holmes
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
— Claudius
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To lay hold of and receive the gospel by a true and saving faith is an act of the soul that has been made a…
— John Bunyan
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In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility,…
— Thomas Merton
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There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we…
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
— Marcus Aurelius
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To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems…
— Nancy Pearcey
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Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
— Eliphas Levi
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You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither…
— R. Scott Bakker
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The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills…
— Chauncey Wright
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God designed all Mankind should at all times know, what he wills them to know, believe, profess, and practice; and has given them no other…
— Matthew Tindal
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One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
— King Albert II
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All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.
— James N. Frey
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God grant ... that he may learn to understand in time, that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see…
— Sigrid Undset
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This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
— Janet Morris
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The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills…
— Elizabeth Ann Seton
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In cold and heat, in rain and wind, the soul united to God says, "I want it to be warm, to be cold, windy, to…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like.
— Stanley J. Grenz
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Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's point of view…
— Hideo Kojima
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