Quotes about Volition

You've got to lapse out before you can know what sensual reality is, lapse into unkowingness, and give up your volition...You've got to learn not-to-be before you can come into being.

The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind.

The life of faith can be called the life of the will since faith is impervious to how one feels but chooses through volition to obey God's mind. Though the Christian may not feel like obeying God

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

Perhaps he was conscious of somewhere within him the two severed wireends of volition and sentience lying, not touching now, waiting to touch, to knit anew so that he could move.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

When the land kills of its own volition we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

Reason is also choice.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

The primary human endowments are 1) self-awareness or self-knowledge; 2) imagination and conscience; and 3) volition or willpower. The secondary endowments are 4) an abundance mentality; 5) courage and consideration; and 6) creativity. The seventh endowment is self-renewal. All are unique human endowments; animals don't possess any of them. But they are all on a continuum of low to high levels.