Quotes about Will
O my God, teach me to be generous, teach me to serve you as I should, to give without counting the cost, to fight without fear of being wounded, to work without seeking rest, to labour without expecting any reward, but the knowledge that I am doing your most holy will.
— Ignatius of Loyola
God loves his creatures, and he loves each one the more, the more it shares his own goodness, which is the first and primary object of his love. Therefore he wants the desires of his rational creatures to be fulfilled because they share most perfectly of all creatures the goodness of god. And his will is an accomplisher of things because he is the cause of things by his will. So it belongs to the divine goodness to fulfill the desires of rational creatures which are put to him in prayer.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.
— Gordon Fee
Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any
— AW Tozer
Love God, then do what you will.
— St. Augustine
Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
— John Milton
Jesus plan called for action, and how He expressed it predicted its success. He didn't say you *might* be my witnesses, or you *could* be my witnesses, or even you *should* be my witnesses. He said you *will* be my witnesses.
— Charles Swindoll
In the first garden, the first Adam, me, had said, Not your will, but mine, and eaten of the knowledge of good and evil, which was judgment and grievance. In the second garden, the second Adam, Yeshua, had said, Not my will, but yours, and surrendered his life.
— Ted Dekker
Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.
— Julian of Norwich
For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.
— Julian of Norwich
Something to be the case. The act of faith in the biblical sense involves the whole person, emotions, intellect, will and heart, in a total commitment of trust in another.
— Francis J. Beckwith
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
— Frank Lloyd Wright