Top 371 Wills And Testaments Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Those who first introduced compulsory education into American life knew exactly why children should go to school and learn to read: to save their souls.... Consistent with this goal, the first book written and printed for children in America was titled Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn from the Breasts of both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment.

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

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

Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.

God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.

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

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

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

A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.

Now let the matter rest as it is, or as it may be, what avail useless speculations? What is to occur we do not know; still in so far we do! what God wills!

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

All strife concerning Christ's testaments cometh hence that men do not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. They understand not that he is in this World, and that the World standeth in Heaven, and Heaven in the World, and are in one another, as Day and Night.

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it - this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. [Bill Shawn] knew exactly what he wanted to do.

All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace, God and man are reconciled; for the cross is the magnet which sends the electric current through the telegraph between earth and heaven, and makes both Testaments thrill, through the ages of the past and future, with living, harmonious, and saving truth.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

Lo, as I gaze, the statured man, Built up from you large hand appears: A type that nature wills to plan But once in all a people's years.

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

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

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

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

I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.

The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.

in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen

But certain souls cohere. It's rare but possible. But it takes two powerful wills to make it so.

There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the Old and New Testaments, from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack, or the wheel... Now, what free inquiry, when a writer must surely encounter the risk of fine or imprisonment for adducing any argument for investigating the divine authority of those books?

The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.

There is not the least cause for worry about financial affairs; every person who wills to do so may rise above want, have all he needs, and become rich.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

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

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

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

I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you've planned for them.

Wills are trumped by legal titles to real estate or beneficiary designations on financial accounts, retirement plans and insurance policies.

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

I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. . . . that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God. . . . that God did send His own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners, and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the Gospel offer.

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

Although spiritual growth puts our wills to the test, after the battle has been won, we recognize that the Lord is the true victor in the struggle.

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

The only basis of peace is the cessation of the conflict of two wills: my will vs God’s.

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.