Quotes about Will

Angels are made of pure spirit (mind and will) without matter, without bodies. Therefore they must communicate by mental telepathy.

Of course we should use all our powers, of mind and will and imagination, but not trust in them, for that is trusting in ourselves.

Each truth about God known by the mind is a new motive for loving Him with the will.

Pride is really very simple. It is the attitude of the spoiled brat: "I want what I want when I want it, and if you say No to me, I hate you." "Thy will be done" is the essential prayer of the saint; "my will be done" is the essential demand of the sinner.

There—fore what is contrary to human nature is contrary to God's will.

The heart spiritually is the will, not the feelings. It is under our control. Feelings are not.

we are already wholly by his right, but because of sin we are not yet wholly his in fact because we do not wholly will what we are right.

He is not the solution to our problems; He is the giver of our problems. Our problems are His tasks and our opportunities, His teaching and our education, His will and our sanctification.

Your problem, however big it is (or however small), is His wise and loving will to you, even though it may not look wise or loving. It is His deliberate permissive will. And your response to it is your response to Him.

Heart" here refers especially to deep feeling or emotion. "Heart" means not only (1) intuitive reason ("the heart has its reasons") and (2) will

Love is supposed to bring us out of the dark prison of the "my will be done" ego into the joys of "thy will be done", both horizontally and vertically, toward both the human and the divine Other.

8. Charity (agape), or willing the good of the other. Since this love comes from the will rather than the feelings, and since angels have wills, angels have this love.