Quotes about Will

The ancient Vedic texts known as the Upanishads declare, "You are what your deepest desire is. As is your desire, so is your intention. As is your intention, so is your will. As is your will, so is your deed. As is your deed, so is your destiny." Our destiny ultimately comes from the deepest level of desire and also from the deepest level of intention. The two are intimately linked to each other.

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.

Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.

What are we to do, then? To make the best of what lies within our power, and deal with everything else as it comes. 'How does it come, then?' As God wills.

If you wish it, you are free; if you wish it, you'll find fault with no one, you'll cast blame on no one, and everything that comes about will do so in accordance with your own will and that of God.

Conduct yourself in all matters, grand and public or small and domestic, in accordance with the laws of nature. Harmonizing your will with nature should be your utmost ideal.

First to those universal principles I have spoken of: these you must keep at command, and without them neither sleep nor rise, drink nor eat nor deal with men: the principle that no one can control another's will, and that the will alone is the sphere of good and evil.

The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.