Quotes about Will
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
When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing.
— Joyce Meyer
You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.
— Charles Spurgeon
It is part of our inheritance to be, above all, secure and confident in the will of God.
— Graham Cooke
What is it to serve God and to do His will? Nothing else than to show mercy to our neighbor. For it is our own neighbor who needs our service; God in heaven needs it not.
— Martin Luther
God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.
— Oswald Chambers
Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will.
— Teresa of Avila
God made every one of us a sexual being, and that is good. Attraction and arousal are the natural, spontaneous, God-given responses to physical beauty, while lust is a deliberate act of the will.
— Rick Warren
Being filled and led by the Spirit may take you places you never planned; but the will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you.
— Neil Anderson
Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.
— Abraham Lincoln