Quotes about Will
I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
— Ayn Rand
You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.
— Ayn Rand
It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.
— Ayn Rand
about Your kingdom and Your will in my heart, my home, and my generation. In Jesus' name, I pray, amen.
— Stephen Kendrick
What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.
— Thomas Cranmer
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit.
— CS Lewis
All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.
— John of the Cross
Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference.
— Jonathan Edwards
there is no way that the Will can determine an act of the Will, than by willing that act of the Will, or, which is the same thing, choosing it.
— Jonathan Edwards
Because if the Will be already inclined, before it exerts its own sovereign power on itself, then its inclination is not wholly owing to itself:
— Jonathan Edwards
What influences, directs, or determines, the mind or will, to such a conclusion or choice as it does form?
— Jonathan Edwards