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You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own read more
You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.
Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of read more
Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Our wills are ours, we know not how;
Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from
wilfulness.
The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from
wilfulness.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
- quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers read more
Will without power is like children playing at soldiers.
- quoted by Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Rovers (act IV),
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.