Quotes about Will
Their mockery is something like we hear today. "Germany prays to God; America prays to God; England prays to God: On whose side is God?" The implication being that God must necessarily be a geographical Deity restricted to one people, one race, and one nation. The answer to that taunt is, of course, that if we prayed as we should, we would all be on the same side because the perfect prayer is: "Thy will be done."
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
— Martin Luther
The freedom to do only what God wants, and accept whatever God sends us.
— Marcus Aurelius
Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every time you and I bow our heads in surrender to the will of God, we embrace the cross and we manifest to the world the heart of Christ who bowed His head to the will of His Father.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
You can't resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.
— Andy Stanley
As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life.
— Elizabeth George
The will of God is not something you add to your life. It's a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Years since have proved to me over and over again that the heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepard would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?
— Elisabeth Elliot
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure; for He "worketh all things after the counsel of His own will" (Eph 1:11). That He did create was simply for His manifestative glory.
— AW Pink