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Will: Quotations from Burning Words

We lay it down as a first principle - from which we can no more depart than from the consciousness of existence - that man is free; and therefore stand ready to embrace whatever is fairly included in the definition of freedom.— ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER

Renew my will from day to day, Blend it with Thine, and take away All that now makes it hard to say, "Thy will be done."— CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius. You cannot will to possess the spirit of Christ, that must come as His gift; but you can choose to study His life, and to imitate it.— E. PRENTISS

There may be some tenderness in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will stands out, there is no broken heart.— RICHARD ALLEINE

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.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.— C. H. SPURGEON

The true servants of God are not solicitous that He should order them to do what they desire to do, but that they may desire to do what He orders them to do.— ST. AUGUSTINE

My will, not Thine be done, turned Paradise into a desert. "Thy will, not mine be done," turned the desert into Paradise, and made Gethsemane the gate of heaven.