Self Will Quotes

“Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces, and then eat just one of the pieces.”
― Judith Viorst

“We tend to think that refusing to exalt Christ is staying true to our self-will and personal freedom when really we are condemning ourselves. Sure, we can pretend to stay true to ourselves, but if you want to talk about reality, all of that is completely trivial if this life is an island and He's the only pilot with a plane and a flight plan.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Shameless self-willed infatuation
Emboldens men to dare damnation,
And starts the wheels of doom which roll
Relentless to their piteous goal.”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon

“Adam and Eve had first-hand empirical evidence of God’s existence. He walked in the Garden with them. Their problem was that God told them they could not eat of a certain tree. – p. 113”
― Ray A, Practice These Principles: Living the Spiritual Disciplines and Virtues in 12-Step Recovery to Achieve Spiritual Growth, Character Development, and Emotional Sobriety

“Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down". My eyes are seeing through what the ordinary men call a mirage!”
― Bayode Ojo, Petals Around The Rose

“The bedrock of corruption is the attitude of selfishness. Nations are ruined when politicians think for themselves first before thinking about anyone else!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“To Laver, Crowley insisted upon magic as "something we do to ourselves," a rational use of one's mental capacities: "It is more convenient to assume the objective existence of an Angel who gives us new knowledge than to allege that our invocation has awakened a supernatural power in ourselves.”
― Lawrence Sutin, Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley

“Self-will can either destroy or catapult your ministry.”
― Jonathan Heimberg

“A perfect and true will can only exist when we have been entirely taken up into God's will and no longer have our own will; whoever does this the more, the more and the more truly they are rooted in God. Indeed, a single Ave Maria spoken in this spirit, when we have stripped ourselves of ourselves, is worth more than the repetition of a thousand psalters without it. In fact, a single step would be better with it than to cross the sea without it.”
― Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings

“A person has only one will and if that is encumbered or occupied by anything, the person will not possess the freedom, solitude, and purity requisite for divine transformation.”
― John of the Cross, The Ascent of Mount Carmel

“My life in the New Age is a testimony to the disasters that occur when you follow your own will instead of God's will.”
― Doreen Virtue, Deceived No More: How Jesus Led Me out of the New Age and into His Word

“Sin is submitting to self-will; Holiness is surrendering to God's will. Sin clings to the temporal; Holiness seeks the eternal.”
― Prasanth Jonathan

“You ape, you're teasing me so as to get the better of me. Shut up, you can't understand anything. If there is no God, then l am God.
You know, I never was able to understand this particular point of yours: why should you be God?'
If God exists, then all will is his, and I can't escape his will. If he does not exist, then all will is mine, and I am obliged to proclaim self-will.
'Self-will? And why are you obliged?'
'Because all will has become mine. Can it really be that no one on this entire planet, once having put an end to God and having developed a belief in self-will, will dare to proclaim self-will, in the fullest possible sense? It's like a poor man who's received an inheritance and is frightened by it and doesn't dare come near the bag full of money, regarding himself as too feeble to possess it. I want to proclaim self-will. Even if I'm the only one, I'll do it.'
'So go ahead and do it.'
I am obliged to shoot myself because my self-will in the fullest possible sense for me is to kill myself.
"But look, you're not the only one to kill yourself; there are many suicides."
"With good reason. But to do it without any reason, solely for self-will, I'm the only one.'
'You know what,' he observed irritably, "if I were in your place, to show self-will I would kill someone else, and not myself. You could become useful. I'll show you who, if you're not afraid. Then perhaps you won't have to shoot yourself today. We could reach an understanding."
"To kill someone else would be the lowest point of my self-will, and that's where you reveal who you are completely. I'm not you: I want the highest point, and I'll kill myself."
'He's worked this out all by himself,' Pyotr Stepanovich muttered angrily.
I am obliged to proclaim disbelief,' Kirillov was walking about the room. 'For me there is no higher idea than the non- existence of God. Human history is behind me. Man has done nothing but invent God in order to live without killing himself; that's the essence of world history to this point. I am the only one in world history who hasn't felt like inventing God for the allow first time. Let people find that out once and for all.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Demons

“Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will.”
― Stendhal, Scarlet and Black: A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century