Top 350 Wills Quotes & Sayings

I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

The common ground where the activities of God and man become one is the motive of perfect love; for in the last resolve love is the essence of God's nature. When he thinks, love is his thought; when he wills, love is the product of his will. To the degree, therefore, that man thinks and wills the good--to the degree that he realizes love in his finite dealings--he interfuses himself with God.

As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.

The Finals are about a test of wills.

There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. "For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she wills it." For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills it.

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

The 'law of wills and causes,' formulated by Comte, . . . is that when men do not know the natural causes of things, they simply attribute them to wills like their own; thus they obtain a theory which provisionally takes the place of science, and this theory forms a basis for theology.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.

There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.

For centuries, Jews have been unjustly treated and despised. It is time they were treated with justice and humanity. God wills it and the Church wills it. St. Paul tells us that the Jews are our brothers. They should also be welcomed as friends.

Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.

God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.

Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.

It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him.

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.

I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

I dominate, and I break guys' wills. When they come to fight me, they know they're going to be in for a fight, and it's going to be a test of wills.

Love wills the good of all and never wills harm or evil to any

Hell is full of good intentions and wills.

Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He does. If you cannot hear His whisper, wait till you do. Take care of running before you are sent. Keep your wills in equipoise till God's hand gives the impulse and direction.

I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.

A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists.

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Man is what he wills himself to be.

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.

Character teaches above our wills.

Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run.

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington.

A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills.

Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy.

And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.

God wills, man dreams, the work is born.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!

There will be water if God wills it.

Chess is a test of wills.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in my drawers, everywhere, in the kitchen. Everywhere, I have wills because I write wills more easily than I write love letters.

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.

Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.

The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life that wills to live.... The essence of the humane spirit is: Preserve life, promote life, help life to achieve its highest destiny. The essence of Evil is: Destroy life, harm life, hamper the development of life

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.