Quotes about Will
When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
And if by prayer incessant I could hope to change the will of Him who all things can, I would not cease to weary Him with my assiduous cries.
— John Milton
We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
— Oswald Chambers
But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.
— John Milton
"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.
— John Newton
When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.
— CS Lewis
The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.
— Marianne Williamson
True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will not the other way around.
— Anonymous
O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.
— Thomas a Kempis
To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.
— William Temple
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
— Woodrow Wilson
To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
— Elisabeth Elliot