Christian Quote by Ephrem the Syrian

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

— J. G. Holland

The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his…

— Augustus Toplady

Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.

— Eliphas Levi

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

— Honore de Balzac

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the…

— Walter Scott

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

— Epictetus

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes…

— Ernest Hello

Whilst a man is persuaded that he has it in his power to contribute anything, be it ever so little, to his salvation, he…

— Martin Luther

He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by…

— Samuel Smiles

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else…

— Anonymous

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt