our wills QUOTES

1 " We need to retrain our brains, our hearts, and our wills to seek a comfort that truly satisfies. "

― Erin M. Straza , Comfort Detox: Finding Freedom from Habits That Bind You

3 " True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FOR as well as freedom FROM, it isn't simply a matter of being forced now to be good, against our wills and without our cooperation, but a matter of being released from slavery precisely into responsibility, into being able at last to choose, to exercise moral muscle, knowing both that one is doing it oneself and that the Spirit is at work within, that God himself is doing that which I too am doing. "

― , Justification: God's Plan & Paul's Vision

5 " It makes a great difference to the look of a novel whether its author believes that the world came late into being and continues to come by a creative act of God, or whether he believes that the world and ourselves are the product of a cosmic accident. It makes a great difference to his novel whether he believes that we are created in God's image, or whether he believes we create God in our own. It makes a great difference whether he believes that our wills are free, or bound like those of the other animals. "

― Flannery O'Connor , Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

7 " We pray pious blether our will is not in it and then we say God does not answer we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask. "