Quotes about Willing
Love means will-to-good, willing the benefit of what or who is loved. We may say we love chocolate cake, but we don't. Rather, we want to eat it. That is desire, not love. In our culture we have a great problem distinguishing between love and desire, but it is essential that we do so.
- Dallas Willard
The healing that is ours and nature's will come if we are willing, if we are patient, if we know the way, if we will do the work.
- Wendell Berry
What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.
- William Howard Taft
But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.
- George Whitefield
Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
- St. Augustine
Christ keeps not his subjects in by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through his grace, freely devoted to his service; they serve out of choice, not as slaves, but as the son or spouse, from a spring of love and a loyal mind. In a word, the laws of Christ are the convert's love, delight, and continual study.
- Joseph Alleine
There is no one God won't use.
- Max Lucado
God can do what He says He can do. And, yes, with all my heart I believe He is willing to perform outstanding miracles in our generation as we increase our faith.
- Beth Moore
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Think of yourself as a vessel. A cup. Don't try to guess what the Master will pour into you before he pours. Only pray it is the Master who pours. Then be willing to accept whatever message he wishes to fill you with. It's his to fill, Sherry. You only receive.
- Ted Dekker
Not one was willing to break out of that velvet cage of comfort and convenience to begin a radical lifestyle lived from an inner reality
- KP Yohannan
Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.
- Amy Grant