Quotes about Will
How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him.
— Marcus Aurelius
Man proposes, but God blocks the game.
— Mark Twain
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?
— Cicero
Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.
— John Maxwell
If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony.
— Peter Kreeft
To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.
— John Calvin
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
— Alexander Hamilton
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will by nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.
— John Milton
The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.
— E Stanley Jones
True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas