Quotes about Will
All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.
- RC Sproul
No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all times, according to his mind and will.
- John Owen
Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.
- Mother Teresa
I don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.
- Charles Swindoll
The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God.
- Watchman Nee
God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.
- Ignatius of Loyola
The Almighty has His own purposes.
- Abraham Lincoln
Repentance isn't only sorrow for past sins, it's also a determination to now do the will of God as He reveals it to us
- AW Tozer
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination.
- CS Lewis
Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
- Dallas Willard
The greatest need in the world today is faith in God and courage to do His will.
- David O. McKay
... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.
- Julian of Norwich