Quotes about Will

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

When your heart's desire is the will of the Lord above everything else, then life loses its threat because His love will carry us through every situation.

But he did have initiative, faith and the will to win.

Moses dedicated himself to the will of God, but not to the God whose will it was.

You and I can become so dedicated to the will of God, we can be so driven by a false sense of purpose, that we might inadvertently take matters into our own hands and leave God completely out of the loop.

But let us keep in mind Philippians 2:13: "It is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure." When your will is combined with God's will, He gives you the power to do what your will is telling you you ought to do. You are not fighting this battle alone. You have tremendous power available to you in Christ.