785 Quotes About Will



  • Author Shaun F. Messick
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    Yes, our Father has a plan, Ciminae,” he said. “But he leaves it up to his children to accept his will. It is their agency. He cannot force his will upon them. If he did, he would cease to be God. They . . . we must choose for ourselves to accept his will with unbreakable faith in our Father. That is when the Father moves us to do his will.” (The Spirit. From Book 2, "Worlds Without End: Aftermath," coming September 1, 2012)

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  • Author Michel de Montaigne
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    I know not what quintessence of all this mixture, which, seizing my whole will, carried it to plunge and lose itself in his, and that having seized his whole will, brought it back with equal concurrence and appetite to plunge and lose itself in mine.

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  • Author Daniel Pinchbeck
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    I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else.

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  • Author Madeline Miller
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    A moment passed, and I looked at her stained hands on the table before me.“And? Are you going to tell me? How goes your witchery?”She smiled her inward smile. “You were right. It is mostly will. Will and work.

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